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WHITE HOUSE AND THE WORLD POLICY BRIEFS
July 20, 2015
While global development is about much more than aid, US foreign assistance is, and will remain, one of the most visible tools for US development policy in many countries. The US government spends less than 1 percent of its annual budget — about $23 billion — on nonmilitary foreign assistance across...
CGD in the News
March 10, 2015
Anit Mukherjee is quoted on how India’s 14th Finance Commission report has transformed the fiscal relationship between the Center and States; Jonah Busch is quoted on the report’s incentives for States to protect their forests; and Bill Savedoff and Rita Perakis’ work on results-ba...
POLICY PAPERS
February 06, 2015
Results-based aid (RBA) is a form of foreign assistance in which one government disburses funds to another for achieving an outcome. This paper distinguishes four different theories used to justify RBA programs and analyzes four case studies – from GAVI, the Amazon Fund, Ethiopian Secondary Ed...
Blog Post
January 22, 2015
Amid rising interest in social impact investment, a growing number of social impact bonds, and a persistent interest in how the private sector can be best engaged in addressing global development challenges, Development Impact Bonds (DIBs) have been attracting a lot of attention....
Blog Post
November 20, 2014
In recent years, donors have been making greater use of performance-based payment approaches to fund development programs. The UK Department for International Development, using the broader term being used across the UK government, has added “Payment by Results” (PbR) to the development ...
Blog Post
August 27, 2014
Development agencies are increasingly interested in making aid more transparent, stakeholder-led, and effective by expanding the use of payment by results (PbR) — rewarding those implementing projects on the basis of results delivered instead of paying for inputs. For payment by results to wor...