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Blog Post
November 26, 2019
It’s been over a year since USAID—under the new brand of the “Journey to Self-Reliance”—set out to reorient its work to better support partner countries in tackling their development challenges. To get a better understanding of how the new Journey to Self-Reliance pivot...
Blog Post
November 04, 2019
Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced the Keeping Girls in School Act, a bill that would authorize USAID to pursue innovative approaches to reduce barriers that keep adolescent girls from receiving a quality education. The act specifically identifies a list of fourte...
Blog Post
September 10, 2019
Africa’s huge market potential—the new Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) makes it the world’s largest free trade area—and the strategic dynamics created by China’s deepening presence on the continent are drawing growing attention, along with big...
Blog Post
August 19, 2019
After seeing Congress repeatedly reject its proposals for drastic foreign aid cuts, the White House is once again making a late-breaking attempt to subvert Congressional budget intent. These measures are designed to look like good-faith steps to take stock of federal spending before the end of the f...
Blog Post
June 11, 2019
In a new CGD working paper, we try to measure the impact of one of the most significant open contracting reforms worldwide, which took place in Ukraine in the last few years. Since 2015, the country has overhauled its procurement system, including the introduction of an e-procurement platform c...
WORKING PAPERS
June 11, 2019
This paper examines the impact of Ukraine’s ambitious procurement reform on outcomes amongst a set of procurements that used competitive tendering. This paper examines the impact of ProZorro and reform on contracts that were procured competitively both prior to and after the introduction of th...