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Blog Post
April 17, 2024
In the wake of COVID and amidst global crises, care has increasingly become recognized as a global issue critical for sustainable development and gender equality. Yet, there are still massive gaps in care policies, services, and financing, and there is much more work that needs to happen to ensure u...
Blog Post
April 16, 2024
Last month The Gambia’s National Assembly advanced a bill that, if ratified, would make it the first country to overturn a ban on female genital mutilation. These moves—supported by the predominantly male legislature—reflect the precarious nature of gains made in gender equality and have implication...
WORKING PAPERS
April 15, 2024
Adaptation is not a universal response to climate shocks, and while a lot of studies are geared towards building adaptive capacity of households, particularly in developing country settings, more recognition should be given to cultural and religious factors that may significantly mitigate responses.
Blog Post
April 09, 2024
It's spring in DC, which means it's time once again for the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings. Finance ministers, central bank governors, and other top officials from around the world gather to discuss the state of the world economy and the international financial architecture, and CGD's researchers ar...
Apr
16
2024
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Washington, DC
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April 04, 2024
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the first African and first woman to head the World Trade Organization, building on a long career where she guided Nigeria through debt distress and introduced sweeping economic reforms across two terms as finance minister. She was also a leader at the World Bank across a 25-...
CGD NOTES
March 28, 2024
Over the past two decades, China has become a distinctive and increasingly important donor of development assistance for health (DAH). However, little is known about what factors influence China’s priority-setting for DAH. In this study, we provide an updated analysis of trends in the priorities of ...
Jul
9
2024
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Washington, DC
9:00—5:00 PM EDT
March 15, 2024
The World Bank Group’s Annual Conference on Development Economics—ABCDE—is a key forum to stimulate an exchange of ideas between leaders in global policy discussions and policymakers from the Bank’s member countries. The 2024 ABCDE will be co-sponsored by the Center for Global Development.
Blog Post
March 12, 2024
There is no way that poverty can be fully tackled without policies designed to address the multiple disadvantages faced by people due to the combination of ascribed attributes including gender, age, race, ethnicity, disability, migration status, and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). And...
Blog Post
March 12, 2024
When it comes to disaster- and climate-related displacement, the Asia-Pacific is ground zero. More than three-quarters of internal disaster displacements occur in the region, with over 225 million displacements between 2010 and 2021. This is set to increase. The number of internally displaced people...
Blog Post
March 07, 2024
In this blog, we explore how OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) providers have been incorporating gender-based targets in their climate-related Official Development Assistance (ODA). We find that development finance categorised as climate-related has increasingly incorporated gender-related...