A CGD blog. One of the questions reportedly from the Presidential transition team to the State Department was: With so much corruption in Africa, how much of our funding is stolen? During the nomination hearings for Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State, Senator Rand Paul…

A CGD blog with Megan O’Donnell. Women account for just 15 percent of all listed inventors behind nine million patent applications across 182 countries. On current rates, we won’t achieve gender parity in inventors until around 2080. It would be in the interests of both innovative firms and the countries that house …

A CGD blog with Tanvi Jaluka. We analyzed participant data from 12 gender-related events and 12 randomly-selected (but similarly-sized) non-gender-related events hosted by CGD, and the evidence is very clear: men aren’t showing up for gender equality.

A CGD blog with Megan O’Donnell. The benefits of the migration of women to women themselves, sending, and receiving countries are well-documented. But across the world, women face higher barriers to migration than do men: in accessing the education and work experience that can help qualify them for visas, or in finding the resource…

A CGD blog. There’s a lot to be said for good data sense, and one way the Millennium Challenge Corporation could demonstrate such sense next year is to replace their current corruption measure with a better one: surveyed evidence of bribes paid.

A CGD blog. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) recently introduced a bill that tackles an important subject in global security: the under-representation of women in the world’s security forces and, in particular, United Nations peacekeeping operations. That&#39 s a grea…

A CGD blog with Megan O’Donnell. The Obama administration has taken some important steps to put women’s economic empowerment at the center of US foreign and development policy, but there’s still plenty of work left to do. Researchers and advocates alike have made the case for why gender equality&mdas…

A CGD blog. Congressman Ed Royce, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, along with a bipartisan list of cosponsors, is proposing the Digital GAP Act, designed to promote Internet access in developing countries and update foreign policy toward the Internet. And on the other side of Capitol…

A CGD blog. Maryland Senator Ben Cardin recently introduced legislation to establish a tiered system of countries with respect to levels of corruption by their governments and their efforts to combat such corruption. It is great to see Senator Cardin looking for ways the United States can contribute t…

A CGD blog with Todd Moss. Most people accept that we will only achieve sustainable energy patterns with a substantial investment in research and development, but where the research will take place and where energy will be consumed doesn’t necessarily match up. Within 25 years, non-OECD countries will account …