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Blog Post
December 16, 2021
With the end of the year fast approaching, our team has rounded up a collection of CGD’s latest analysis and commentary on US development policy. From COVID-19 to climate finance, our experts and policy team have been hard at work tracking major issues in US development policy and bringing new solut...
Blog Post
December 15, 2021
This blog explores the extent to which countries use out of date information to estimate GDP and finds that low-income country (LICs) GDP could be a third higher than currently believed, and that lower middle-income country (LMICs) GDP could be over a quarter higher. In total, this would mean that 7...
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...
Blog Post
December 01, 2021
We worked with the Joint Learning Network (JLN) Efficiency Collaborative to gain insights from Collaborative members who represent technical staff and decision-makers working at the heart of health benefit packages development and revisions in eleven low-and middle-income countries in Africa and Asi...
Blog Post
November 30, 2021
Back in August, President Biden nominated Scott Nathan to serve as CEO of the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). This week, Nathan will finally have the chance to share his vision for the still-relatively-new agency before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Ahead of to...
CASE STUDIES
November 18, 2021
Since 2018, the government of Kenya has worked on a series of policies and pilots to support the implementation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022. UHC ensures that all individuals and communities receive the health services they need without suffering financial hardship. As part of this eff...