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…

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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. ….

A CGD blog. This is one of a series of CGD blogs on tweaks to the SDG targets The Open Working Group’s Goal Five (achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls) is a notable departure from the first four goals.

A CGD blog. This is the latest in a series of CGD blogs suggesting improvements to the SDG targets. The first target of the first goal of the Sustainable Development Goals is to eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere by 2030. The second target is to reduce at least by ha….

A CGD blog. Two weeks ago, UN Women entered into an agreement with Uber, the taxi app, that would see the two organizations working together to get one million women worldwide to sign up as taxi drivers by 2020. Then, last Friday, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka – UN Women’s Executive Director pulled out of the deal.

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A CGD blog. Imagine you are an aid agency with a new mission, set at the highest level: end world poverty. Two come to mind. How are you to achieve such a noble but audacious goal? The first thing you’d want to do is define the target: what is meant by &lsquo poverty’? Perhaps ….

A CGD blog with Sarah Dykstra. Last week, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, completed a $7.5 billion replenishment to fund its work on immunization in the world’s poorest countries between now and 2020. Gavi’s next step is to ensure that the money is used as effectively as possible to save lives and improve health.