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Blog Post
June 28, 2024
The CGD summer Fridays are a great boon to my productivity and mental health (nothing cheers you up like a day monster-hunting and bird watching with a three-year-old), but it does cause side effects, notably an incredible backlog of good writing to try and whittle down to a few bullet points in the...
Blog Post
June 28, 2024
In late May, experts from across Africa and globally met in Nairobi on the margins of the African Development Bank Annual Meetings to share their perspectives on how the multilateral development banks (MDBs) should be reformed to better serve the needs of borrowers and other stakeholders from the Gl...
Blog Post
June 27, 2024
The co-hosts of the 2024 Development Leaders Conference—CGD's Mikaela Gavas, Siti Nugraha Mauludiah from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Indonesia, and Norad's Bård Vegar Solhjell—share their takeaways from the event, including the diverse experiences of traditional and emerging donors, the chall...
Blog Post
June 25, 2024
In earlier CGD work, we argued that the Bank should use evidence, on a more routine basis, from a range of sources—impact and process evaluations, as well as quantitative assessments and implementation studies—to inform its lending. To be successful, the Knowledge Compact must be developed and embed...
Blog Post
June 25, 2024
Today we release two new guides that can support countries through the first two critical steps in priority setting reforms: carrying out a situational analysis and then developing a national HTA framework. These are based on the last 10 years’ experience of the international Decision Support Initia...
Blog Post
June 24, 2024
There have been some dramatic global changes and challenges to the world order over the last few years. While the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine highlighted countries’ global interdependency, deepening geopolitical tensions have brought national security considerations to the fore. There i...