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Blog Post
February 18, 2014
“We’re the world’s biggest NGO,” Paul Polman, the chief executive of Unilever, told a roomful of well-wishers at the Center for Global Development conference center during last week’s presentation of the CGD/Foreign Policy Commitment to Development “Idea...
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February 10, 2014
Development progress has traditionally been measured in terms of reductions in poverty and increases in per capita GDP, that is, average income as calculated by dividing total income by the total population. My guests on this week’s Global Prosperity Wonkcast, Nancy Birdsall an...
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January 13, 2014
Are pay-for-performance aid programs such as Cash on Delivery Aid more vulnerable to corruption than traditional input-focused programs? My guests this week, senior fellows William Savedoff and Charles Kenny, argue in a new new working paper and brief that the opp...
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January 13, 2014
Are pay-for-performance aid programs such as Cash on Delivery Aid more vulnerable to corruption than traditional input-focused programs? My guests this week, senior fellows William Savedoff and Charles Kenny, argue in a new new working paper and brief that the opp...
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January 08, 2014
A prior version of this post appeared in the On Think Tanks blog.
Andrew Selee, vice president for programs at the Wilson Center, a think tank in Washington DC, has written a slim volume that will be useful to anybody who is part of a think tank leadership team. The book, What Should Think Tan...