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Blog Post
October 11, 2013
Hey international community, so you’re feeling helpless as you watch the debt limit crisis unfold in Washington? Here’s something you can do about it.
With the world’s economic policymakers in Washington this week for the annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF, there is no shor...
Blog Post
October 03, 2013
As the debt ceiling looms and the government shutdown continues, it seems like a useful time to revisit budget-neutral ways to amp up US development policy. We recently released a proposal titled “OPIC Unleashed,” which provides a budget-neutral roadmap to strengthen US development polic...
PUBLICATION
August 14, 2013
A strengthened OPIC—more efficiently deploying existing tools at no additional budget cost—would (1) increase US commercial access in emerging economies, (2) reflect economic, social, and political priorities in developing countries, (3) promote flagship US initiatives during austere budget conditio...
Blog Post
May 24, 2013
The Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Development held a hearing on “Different Perspectives on International Development Assistance” on Wednesday with CGD’s own Todd Moss testifying about why US development assistance matters, but also it can be improved—...
Blog Post
May 13, 2013
The United Kingdom has been a stalwart funder and innovator in foreign assistance for almost 20 years. In 2011, it created the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) to report to Parliament on the country’s growing aid portfolio. ICAI is a QUANGO in Brit-speak –...
Multimedia
March 29, 2013
In this CNN interview, Senior Fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez argues that the recently announced measures in Cyprus that imposes losses on non-insured depositors as part of a full-fledged bank restructuring program is adequate, but implemented too late to avoid a long-lasting recession.
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