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Press Release
February 02, 2015
The UK House of Commons International Development Committee issued a report today, which concluded that foreign aid to poor countries is no longer a sufficient policy to address shared global challenges. The report says the focus should move away from aid and towards an approach that focus...
CGD in the News
December 10, 2014
In comments given to the London School of Economics Diplomacy Commission, Barder asked the audience to imagine a country that had no way to collect taxes, no police force, no ability to provide even emergency health care to its citizens, and no ability to enforce any of the laws it decides to make. ...
CGD in the News
June 09, 2014
During the past two decades, something unexpected happened in the field of development economics. Researchers got out from behind their desks to figure out why, after billions of dollars had been spent on foreign aid, so many poor people were no less poor. They began talking with those they were try...
CGD in the News
March 11, 2014
As Owen Barder alludes to in his turn of the year assessment, aid agencies are an increasingly endangered species. For those working in organisations that are dependent on official development assistance, it is hard to talk about ending their dependency, but the 21st century demands the challen...
Press Release
October 01, 2013
An international group of experts convened by the Center for Global Development (CGD) and Social Finance UK is seeking to play matchmaker for an unlikely pairing, urging investors and aid donors to join together to create Development Impact Bonds (DIBs), a new financial instrument that taps private ...