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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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A CGD blog.
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A CGD blog. Last night, the State Department released the latest batch of emails from Hillary Clinton' s personal account related to her work as Secretary of State. The bad news: the content appears to reflect limited interest in international development. The good news is that the emails do sugges…
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A CGD blog. A new report examining independent learning assessments in developing countries shows that while they produce robust measures to date they have done little to improve the quality of learning. Growing awareness of the sorry state of education is necessary, but it is far from sufficient to spark chang…
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A CGD blog. Meeting the SDG targets for infrastructure in developing countries is going to cost around USD 1 trillion a year. With official development assistance at around $150 billion, other official flows at $27 billion, and investment in infrastructure with private involvement at about $181 billion, it…
