A CGD blog with Owen Barder. New technologies are central to the kind of global progress outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals, and those technologies need to reach people in the developing world who can benefit from them. But technology transfer is a terrible way to think about the issues involved. …

A CGD blog with Amanda Glassman. After a successful replenishment earlier this year, the board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is thinking through how to maximize the impact of the money it has raised. One hot issue is graduation from Gavi support. Currently, the Alliance uses an income cutoff loosely based on eligibility …

A CGD blog. Gabriel S&iacute pos, Samuel Sp&aacute c and Martin Koll&aacute rik of Transparency International Slovakia have just published an important and useful evaluation of that country’s contract publication regime. The evaluation suggests proactive contract publication can be a popul…

A CGD blog. In a blog post on the World Bank’s website, Marcos Siqueira lays out the case for total public contract transparency, including disclosure of unredacted contracts, associated financial deals, unredacted bids, unredacted amendments, performance reports, financial data of the project c…

A CGD blog. I’ve been sitting in lots of meetings and covering paper with lots of ink recently about the Sustainable Development Goals and Financing for Development. And when the topic of aid comes up I nod sagaciously along with others in the room when someone says well, of course, there won…

A CGD blog. In my blog on taxes in the Addis Financing for Development draft, I argued that any language on revenue levels should be matched with ambitious language on spending the money well. But it is technically hard to set meaningful targets on the efficiency of government spending.

A CGD blog. Tax day looms large for many Americans – April 15 was the last date for paying your tax bill, and the day on which the top one percent of Americans, who get 21.0 percent of total income, pay 21.6 percent of total state and federal taxes. So much for a progressive tax…

A CGD blog.

A CGD blog.

A CGD blog. This is one of a series of CGD blogs on tweaks to the SDG targets. Target 8.1 calls for rapid per capita economic growth. As this is a vital element of sustained progress on development, it is absolutely right that a comprehensive set of development goals include a growth target. ….