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CGD NOTES
December 02, 2021
The UK has historically prioritised poverty reduction in its aid spending, focusing finance where it is most needed. In this note, we assess the poverty focus of the UK’s bilateral official development assistance (ODA) over the past decade and compare this to other major donors. To do so, we examine...
Jul
7
2021
2:00—3:30 PM British Summer Time (BST)
June 24, 2021
Economists play an important role in policy-making in the UK, but as a profession, they are not very representative of society. Recent research has found that ethnic diversity among UK academic economists has increased though some groups, notably Black individuals, remain under-represented.
WORKING PAPERS
June 14, 2021
There will be 95 million fewer working-age people in Europe in 2050 than in 2015, under business as usual. The paper compares business as usual estimates of inflows to 2050 with the size of the labor gap in Europe. Under plausible estimates, business as usual will fill one-third of the labor gap. Th...
May
27
2021
10:00—11:00 AM Washington D.C Time
May 12, 2021
Through our work on the Donor Tracker, we know which donors are or are not making bold policy commitments and we know what they do and don’t fund. But how do we know which donors are complying with best practices to maximize the effectiveness of their official development assistance (ODA)?