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2008
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October 07, 2008
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), established by Congress in 2004 to administer a major new U.S. development assistance effort, has undertaken a concerted strategy to address this evaluation gap, sponsoring rigorous independent evaluations of its funded projects so as to build scientifical...
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2008
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September 16, 2008
Each day brings fresh evidence that Americans’ well-being is linked to the lives of others around the world as never before. Accelerating advances in technology and the creation of new knowledge offer undreamed-of opportunities. Yet global poverty, inequality, disease and the threat of rapid climate...
BOOKS
August 22, 2008
The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President shows how modest changes in U.S. policies could greatly improve the lives of poor people in developing countries, thus fostering greater stability, security, and prosperity globally and at home. Center for Global ...
BRIEFS
September 27, 2007
In 2004 a working group of experts was convened by the Center for Global Development to identify cases in which large-scale efforts to improve health in developing countries have succeeded—saving millions of lives and preserving the livelihoods and social fabric of entire communities. Seventeen of t...
July 09, 2007
CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet has called for deep structural reform of U.S. foreign aid programs in testimony before the Senate and House subcommittees. Radelet, who served as a senior Treasury official under both Democratic and Republican administrations, said that reforms could include drafting ...
June 18, 2007
CGD is seeking a host organization for a new international entity to promote independent impact evaluations of development programs. Provisionally called the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3IE or "triple I E"), the new entity will work to increase knowledge about what works in socia...
New from CGD
May 29, 2007
Rich countries and private philanthropies spend billions of dollars every year to buy medicines for poor people in developing countries but the lack of reliable demand forecasts creates shortages and raises prices. CGD is proposing a practical new solution: a neutral third party--neither buyer nor s...
REPORTS
May 29, 2007
This report of CGD's Global Health Forecasting Working Group, which was convened in early 2006 by senior fellow and director of programs Ruth Levine to sort out why demand forecasting has been so problematic, provides an elegant analysis of the problem and a sensible agenda for action. Their report ...
BRIEFS
May 18, 2007
Achieving better health in poor countries depends in part on giving companies that produce drugs, vaccines and diagnostics incentives to invest in their production by improving their ability to forecast which products will be purchased by whom in what quantities. This brief reviews the findings of C...