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Blog Post
July 14, 2015
The Financing Development for Development Conference is well under way, and this week's podcast comes to you direct from Addis to give you an update on the negotiations. Owen Barder, who has been in on the conversations, tells you what's being discussed and the likelihood of meaningful resul...
CGD in the News
December 10, 2014
In comments given to the London School of Economics Diplomacy Commission, Barder asked the audience to imagine a country that had no way to collect taxes, no police force, no ability to provide even emergency health care to its citizens, and no ability to enforce any of the laws it decides to make. ...
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October 16, 2013
The OECD Development Centre and its Global Network of Foundations Working for Development (netFWD), the Center for Global Development (CGD) and the European Foundation Centre (EFC) are pleased to host a workshop to discuss the concept and practical implications of the use of Development Impact Bonds...
REPORTS
October 07, 2013
This report explains how Development Impact Bonds (DIBs) can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of development funding. Based on Social Impact Bonds in industrialized countries, a DIB creates a contract between private investors and donors or governments who have agreed upon a shared developm...
Press Release
October 01, 2013
An international group of experts convened by the Center for Global Development (CGD) and Social Finance UK is seeking to play matchmaker for an unlikely pairing, urging investors and aid donors to join together to create Development Impact Bonds (DIBs), a new financial instrument that taps private ...