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CGD in the News
November 19, 2014
Amanda Glassman, director of Global Health Policy at the Center for Global Development, was not ready to blame the two Washington-based institutions.
"The external world thinks that IMF and World Bank have much more influence that they actually do," she said.
According to Glassman, conf...
CGD in the News
November 18, 2014
It’s not just individual projects that fall into the gap between inputs and results. Lant Pritchett’s The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain't Learning documents how the international push for improved school attendance—as opposed to improved literacy, professional skills, and...
CGD in the News
November 12, 2014
Every day, patients across all nationalities and socioeconomic strata put their trust in hospitals to deliver a happy and healthy baby, a fighting chance against cancer, or a comfortable and respectful place to spend one’s last days with family and friends.
But too often, hospitals in low- an...
CGD in the News
October 17, 2014
A July report from the Data for African Development Working Group found that most national statistics offices in Africa lack reliable funding and, in fact, depend on aid donors for their budgets. The aid donors are generally happy to fund their statistical priorities, like household surveys, but not...
CGD in the News
September 15, 2014
CGD'S effort to weigh malaria interventions stirred new controversy. Malaria control didn't make it into the first two editions of Millions Saved, in 2004 and 2007, which documented triumphs from global ones like smallpox eradication to little-known efforts to combat diarrheal disease in Egy...
CGD in the News
August 13, 2014
Since the term “data revolution” was introduced, there has been a flurry of activity to define, develop, and implement an agenda to transform the collection, use, and distribution of development statistics. That makes sense. Assessing the international community’s next development ...
CGD in the News
August 07, 2014
[The CGD working paper] looks at statistics the government has beautified for the sake of international donors. For instance government vaccination rates are higher than those reported by household surveys.
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But in the long run, dodgy statistics aren’t good for anyone. They “distort...
CGD in the News
April 25, 2014
"I think everyone's starting to focus on how to get better value for money. At the Center for Global Development we've done some work specifically focused on the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria looking at what kinds of incentives their old grant agreements cre...
CGD in the News
April 03, 2014
Some observers are worried that the pendulum at USAID may be swinging too quickly in the direction of research. Casey Dunning, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Development, a think tank in Washington DC, says that the wider development community may not have the scientific expertise ...