A CGD blog with Kimberly Ann Elliott. McDonald&#39 s has just gone global with its commitment to serve chicken free from antibiotics that are critically important to human health. Building on a similar phase-out in its US chicken supply in 2016, the company will ban critical antibiotic use from sourced chicken i…

A CGD blog. A few months ago, I wrote a note calling for financial incentives to increase the number of women in (military) peacekeeping operations from its current level of about 4 percent closer to the UN Security Council target of about 20 percent. This post includes some more though…

A CGD blog with Janeen Madan Keller. Without global action, by 2050 there could be as many as 10 million antimicrobial resistance-related deaths each year. An important and often overlooked part of the problem is the overuse of antibiotics in farm animals. CGD recently convened a roundtable discussion with technic…

A CGD blog. A year ago, I requested comments on a draft manuscript about corruption. Last week, we launched the resulting book: Results Not Receipts: Counting the Right Things in Aid and Corruption. I think the text was considerably improved by the comments process (and I hope the commenters agre…

A CGD blog with Rajesh Mirchandani. What impact does corruption have on development, and what’s the best way to stamp it out? In a new book called Results, Not Receipts CGD senior fellow Charles Kenny offers a way to strengthen the case for aid and reduce corruption at the same time: focus on outcomes, rather…

A CGD blog. When you read what economists have to say about development, it is easy to be disheartened about the prospects for poor countries. One big reason is that slow changing institutional factors are seen as key to development prospects. I’ve just published a CGD book that’s a little more opti…

A CGD blog. The World Bank’s soft lending arm for poorer countries, IDA, is busy rolling out a new $2.5 billion Private Sector Window. (See last year’s outline proposal for reference.) Bigger private sectors in IDA countries would be hugely welcome, so there is much to like in the broad th…

A CGD blog. A bipartisan group of eight Senators led by Senate Foreign Relations Ranking Member Ben Cardin (D-MD) has just reintroduced a new version of a bill designed to identify and combat corruption overseas. The Combating Global Corruption Act of 2017 ties some potentially useful anti-corruption measures t…

A CGD blog. The world of business is still extremely gender-unequal. Across the countries in the World Bank’s enterprise surveys less than one in five firms are run by a woman, for example. Governments could help fix that problem by using their immense purchasing power (close on $10 trillion a …

A CGD blog. Martin Kirk and Jason Hickel published a piece earlier this week on the annual Gates Letter. The core critique is that the letter is too rosy. In particular, Kirk and Hickel say of the Gates letter: some of their examples are just wrong. The case t…