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April 11, 2024
Ahead of the highly anticipated World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings in Marrakesh, the Center for Global Development has unveiled a groundbreaking tool—the MDB Reform Tracker. This tracker explores how the six largest multilateral development banks are tracking against three major reform agenda:
Blog Post
March 14, 2024
Since its inception, DFC has demonstrated its capacity to rapidly increase its investment volume, making use of a higher portfolio cap. Its annual commitments have doubled over the past four years. But the agency has been subject to criticism (including from some at CGD) for insufficiently prioritiz...
Blog Post
March 11, 2024
Last month, Open Philanthropy published a list of open research questions they would like answers to. It’s a fascinating list, and in keeping with their mission, focuses on some potentially high-impact and neglected problems where more evidence could make a big difference to improve social and econo...
Blog Post
January 24, 2024
Yesterday marked two decades since President George W. Bush signed into law a consolidated spending bill that carried authorization for the creation of a new innovative US aid agency. The win came nearly two years after the president unveiled his bold vision that centered on “a new compact for globa...
Blog Post
November 14, 2023
Over the years, US lawmakers of many stripes have embraced the value proposition of foreign assistance. While their precise motivations have varied, ensuring US international aid is transparent, accountable, and effective has been vital to this long-running bipartisan support.
Nov
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2023
HYBRID
Washington, DC
9:30—11:00 AM ET / 2:30-4:00 PM GMT
November 06, 2023
In this seminar, a team of researchers at CGD and others will present new analysis of USAID's evaluation portfolio, quantifying the impacts on pupils' reading outcomes and examining the cost-effectiveness of American aid. The presentation will be followed by a discussion of policy implications and b...
Nov
15
2023
HYBRID
Washington, DC
10:00—11:30 AM ET / 3:00-4:30 PM GMT
October 31, 2023
For as long as US foreign aid has enjoyed bipartisan support on Capitol Hill, lawmakers have sought to ensure this assistance is transparent, accountable, and effective. Thanks, in part, to passage of the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act (FATAA) in 2016, US agencies involved in implem...
POLICY PAPERS
October 12, 2023
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), which offers investors and bankers political risk insurance and guarantees against non-payment by governments and state-owned enterprises, should feature heavily in the private sector reform agenda. We offer recommendations that would enable MIGA ...
Blog Post
October 12, 2023
As shareholders move forward with the World Bank’s Evolution Roadmap, they should take a closer look at the Multilateral Insurance Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and its potential to help advance the private sector agenda which has so far failed to deliver. The current version of the Roadmap includes opti...