A CGD blog. Last week, within a few hours of announcing she was running for a second term as head of the IMF, it appeared that Christine Lagarde had the nomination sewn up. That’s little surprise given the incumbent’s track record. But what better time than now when Europ…

A CGD blog with Megan O’Donnell. Combating Gender Apartheid at Work: A Proposal for US Legislation or Executive Action

A CGD blog with Jonah Busch

A CGD blog with Justin Sandefur. The research organization Aid Data has been getting a lot of attention in the aid world of late with its survey of recipient country policymakers and practitioners and their views of the utility, influence and helpfulness during reform of various aid agencies. Suggests the press release: &…

A CGD blog. For the reader in a hurry, this gift-giving guide comes in two parts: one for those with $45 billion to spend and one for those of slightly more modest means. Please feel free to skip to the part which is more applicable to your budget for presents.

A CGD blog with Megan O’Donnell. As part of our new Gender and Development program, CGD just hosted the first annual Birdsall House Conference on Women. This year’s session, Small Changes, Big Impact: Creating Conditions for Women and Girls to Thrive, explored the possibility that cheap and scalable aid-funded i…

A CGD blog. Has the effort to make the goals famous laid the foundation for a global movement? The initial evidence suggests ‘not yet.’ And in defense of the Global Goals organizers, that isn’t for lack of trying.

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A CGD blog. There were a lot of speeches made around the SDGs by prime ministers and presidents this weekend that had a broadly similar format. The result was much stirring rhetoric, and almost nothing in the way of progress.

A CGD blog. The Millennium Challenge Corporation is a model aid agency in a lot of ways, one of which is its commitment to learning from experience and evidence on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to development programs. Despite that, it still has an egregiously flawed way to deal with the risk…