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Blog Post
June 05, 2024
In 2015 the nations of the world agreed at the United Nations on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be reached by 2030. The SDGs are the closest the world has come to a definable and measurable global social contract.
The SDGs do not constitute a legally binding contract; there are no pen...
Blog Post
May 10, 2024
Here is a Mother’s Day shout-out to all the mothers working at international financial institutions (IFIs) around the world, and especially to mothers at the two banks I know best: the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, where I worked for a total of almost two decades with at least ...
Jul
9
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
9:00—5:00 PM EDT
March 15, 2024
The World Bank Group’s Annual Conference on Development Economics—ABCDE—is a key forum to stimulate an exchange of ideas between leaders in global policy discussions and policymakers from the Bank’s member countries. The 2024 ABCDE will be co-sponsored by the Center for Global Development.
Mar
26
2024
VIRTUAL
10:00—11:30 AM ET / 2:00 - 3:30 PM GMT
March 01, 2024
Join CGD as Vinod Thomas, author of "Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change," shares some of the key ideas and lessons from the book, and other experts engage in a moderated discussion on the findings and their implications.
Feb
28
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
10:00—11:30 AM ET / 3:00-4:30 PM GMT
January 25, 2024
How can the intersection of gender and diversity in international financial institution (IFIs) leadership foster more effective and inclusive development outcomes? In the second session of our Gender in IFIs series, we explore the internal culture and external complexities of the international devel...
WORKING PAPERS
January 29, 2024
A two-stage experiment disentangles the effect of various aspects of pay-for-performance contracts. The first is a lab-in-the-field experiment where 1,359 health workers are primed with a checklist of salient clinical tasks, then randomized within 690 clinics to receive no incentives, rewards, or pe...
Blog Post
December 20, 2016
In 2016 on the CGD Podcast, we have discussed some of development's biggest questions: How do we pay for development? How do we measure the sustainable development goals (SDGs)? What should we do about refugees and migrants? And is there life yet in the notion of globalism? The links to all the ...
Blog Post
December 19, 2016
Is big money really necessary, or even sufficient, to improving learning outcomes for children in the developing world? CGD’s background research submitted to the Commission has convinced us that the key to faster progress is not incremental money; it is focused action in two critical areas. T...