A CGD blog with Nazanin Ash. The budget that the President submitted to Congress this week included an 8 percent increase in the international affairs account, including a commendable increase for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. But what we haven’t seen from this administration yet is a concrete proposal for how Ame…

A CGD blog. Three big conferences next year could affect the next two decades of global development. The first will bring world leaders to Addis Ababa in July for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development.

A CGD blog. Today, we’ll hold the DC launch event for Publishing Government Contracts: Addressing Concerns and Easing Implementation at the OpenGov Hub in Washington DC (do come!).

A CGD blog. The CGD Working Group report on Publishing Government Contracts lays out the case for routine publication of government contracts, suggests approaches to maximize the impact and effectiveness of that publication, and addresses some common concerns about collusion, privacy, and commercial and nationa…

A CGD blog. On the 12th November, I’ll be attending an Overseas Development Institute conference in London on financing the Sustainable Development Goals.

A CGD blog. This week, we’ll launch a CGD Working Group report on Publishing Government Contracts at the Open Up? conference in London. That’s an appropriate location not just because the UK is a leader in government contract publication, but also because London is a city that was made conside…

A CGD blog. Today, CGD is presenting the Commitment to Development Award to The Open Government Partnership (OGP), a consortium of governments and civil society from 65 countries that have made over 2,000 commitments to make government more open and accountable.

A CGD blog. Yesterday I was excited to see that the UK Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) had a report out on UK Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) anticorruption activities. It was a great topic for independent analysis by a group that didn’t need to worry about the…

A CGD blog with Todd Moss. Momentum seems to be building on Capitol Hill for some kind of West African travel ban as an anti-Ebola measure. It sounds like a simple solution. But here’s why a travel ban is pointless-or could even make us less safe.

A CGD blog with Sarah Dykstra. Twenty years ago First Lady Hillary Clinton spoke in Beijing before the Fourth World Conference on Women and declared: If there is one message that echoes from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for al…