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Blog Post
January 08, 2018
Here at CGD, we’re always working on new ideas to stay on top of the rapidly changing global development landscape. Whether it’s examining new technologies with the potential to alleviate poverty, presenting innovative ways to finance global health, assessing changing leadership at inter...
Nov
9
2015
10:00—11:30 AM
October 27, 2015
What is the best way to help the world’s poorest and most vulnerable?
The current humanitarian aid system - based around the delivery of physical supplies to those in need - is in dire need of change to reflect a simple reality: more people are in need and for longer. Evidence points to h...
Sep
15
2015
HYBRID
London, UK
2:00—3:30 PM
August 27, 2015
The humanitarian aid system is under severe strain. New approaches are needed to protect the lives and dignity of those affected and to ensure aid is spent as effectively as possible.
Evidence shows that unconditional cash transfers can be more efficient, more transparent, more accountable and ...
Mar
20
2015
1:00—2:30 PM
March 09, 2015
With all the hype (and criticism) over foreign aid programs that pay for results, what do we really know about how they are being implemented and whether they are effective? In their new paper “Does Results-Based Aid Change Anything? Pecuniary Interests, Attention, Accountability and Dis...
Blog Post
September 07, 2012
In the last of a series of three blog posts looking at the implications of complexity theory for development, Owen Barder and Ben Ramalingam look at the implications of complexity for the trend towards results-based management in development cooperation. They argue that is a common mistake to see a ...