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CGD in the News
April 24, 2017
Malaria imposes a heavy burden on the world. Figures vary but every year it causes more than 400,000 deaths in low-income countries and costs governments and families a sum estimated to be at least $12bn. For those seeking to find and fund a solution, the question, as with all healthcare matters, is...
CGD in the News
March 10, 2017
A vast majority of aid — 94 percent — is noncash. Donor resistance is one reason for this; it is not easy to persuade American oligarchs, British inheritors and Japanese industrialists to fork over their money to the extremely poor to use as they see fit. “There’s the usual w...
CGD in the News
February 07, 2017
Even at the World Bank and USAID, only a small portion of projects are subject to impact evaluations, agreed Amanda Glassman, chief operating officer and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. Every year, her group does an exhaustive review to identify large-scale health programs that m...