A CGD blog with Megan O’Donnell. My Hopes for the President’s Speech at the United Nations

A CGD blog. In two weeks, a teaming mass of world leaders are going to descend on New York to sign up to the Sustainable Development Goals. Among the targets to be met by 2030 are global universal access to water, sanitation, reliable modern energy, and communications technologies. Back-of-the-envelope calculat…

A CGD blog with Megan O’Donnell

A CGD blog with Rachel Bonnifield. While the numbers coming out of side events at Addis were hardly worth the single shake of a string-free pom-pom, and the launch of a Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data raised a lot of questions, there were some bright spots in the US commitments to that partnership. In…

A CGD blog. In 2002, negotiators from the world over met in Mexico to agree on the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development. As Simon Maxwell has pointed out, it is an international document on development cooperation that leads with the most vital financing iss…

A CGD blog with Beth Schwanke. President Obama is wheels up to Kenya and Ethiopia. Likely his last trip to the continent as president, Charles Kenny and Todd Moss each take this moment to assess his legacy in Africa thus far and identify where there are still opportunities. Here is Charles in Bloomberg. Here is…

For the first half of this week, I was at the seaside with my family.    On Tuesday, with the help of new friends from across the beach, we built a pyramid.  It was as tall as my younger daughter, and surrounded by a complex of moats, watchtowers and crenellated walls that spread far over…

A CGD blog with Rajesh Mirchandani. With the third international Financing for Development conference taking place only a week from now in Addis Ababa, I sit down with Charles Kenny to take stock of this marquee event. We discuss its importance and what one might reasonably hope is achieved there.

A CGD blog.

A CGD blog.