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May
29
2024
IN PERSON
2:00—7:30 AM ET, 9 AM—2:30 PM EAT
May 09, 2024
The Center for Global Development (CGD), together with the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), Partnership for Economic Policy Network (PEP), the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS), and REPOA, are holding a workshop alongside the African Development Bank’s annual meetings in Nairo...
Blog Post
March 21, 2024
CGD's Gyude Moore speaks with Nick O’Donohoe from British International Investment and Frank Aswani from the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance about balancing local and international focus, the impact of a "funding winter," and how the public and private sectors can fill the financing gap for bu...
Dec
7
2023
VIRTUAL
10:00—11:15 AM ET / 3:00-4:15 PM GMT
November 20, 2023
In this edition of the Future of Development series, Seema Jayachandran and Rohini Somanathan will join host Ranil Dissanayake to discuss environmental externalities and the future of development. They will focus on how governments (and others) can address the environmental costs of widespread and d...
CGD NOTES
August 23, 2023
Across several African countries, there has been a troubling trend of infrastructure being stripped to sell as scrap metal. People have been arrested for ripping out and selling rail sleepers in South Africa and Ghana, pylon and copper wires in Uganda, and streetlamp meters in Liberia. That strippin...
POLICY PAPERS
July 26, 2023
Public and policy discourse has been imprecise in its definition of what constitutes a global public good, with implications for our understanding of how MDBs contribute to them. Once this is corrected for, it becomes apparent that, except under restrictive conditions that are unlikely to hold in th...
Blog Post
July 26, 2023
The effects of anthropogenic climate change are upon us, and the time for serious action is past due. In this context it is unsurprising that many observers are turning to the multilateral development banks (MDBs) for this action. These are institutions whose names inspire the potential for grand ac...
BRIEFS
June 08, 2023
To meet many of today’s most pressing challenges, we need to find new solutions. But the fastest, cheapest, and most effective way to encourage high-impact innovation isn’t always obvious. Governments, philanthropists, and the private sector typically invest in research and development (R&D) by bett...
Apr
11
2023
12:30—2:00 PM ET 5:30-7:00 PM BST In-person and Online
April 04, 2023
In the wake of COVID-19, African countries are set to receive special drawing rights to boost their economies. However, there is a need to increase African agency in development financing – including in the deployment of SDRs to best meet African development agendas such as Agenda 2063. During COVID...