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Blog Post
December 09, 2020
On December 15, the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s board of directors will hold its annual country selection meeting (the last of the Trump administration), identifying which countries will be made newly eligible for the agency’s funding. Every year CGD’s US Development Policy team highlights ke...
CGD NOTES
December 09, 2020
All three of the recent UN secretary-general reports on peacebuilding and sustaining peace (2018, 2019, and 2020) take note of the need to enhance collaboration between the UN—not only its development system but also its peace and security and humanitarian arms—with international financial instituti...
WHITE HOUSE AND THE WORLD POLICY BRIEFS
December 03, 2020
As the world’s largest bilateral donor responsible for managing around $20 billion in annual funding, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has a particular responsibility to take an evidence-informed approach to its work. It also has a congressional mandate to do so.
Blog Post
October 22, 2020
Drawing on work done jointly with CGD, New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) just released a paper by Marc Jacquand that makes the case for better IFI-UN coordination in fragile states to better identify macroeconomic and political vulnerabilities, anticipate the tipping po...
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October 07, 2020
While eight of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies are in Africa, the region as a whole—much like the rest of the world—faces economic contraction it can ill afford. The continent’s post-COVID recovery will hinge, in part, on continued progress toward regional integration. The market size of m...