A CGD blog with Sarah Dykstra. We noted in a previous blog that 79 countries restrict the type of jobs women can do just on the grounds of their sex.

A CGD blog with Sarah Dykstra. Domestic violence – overwhelmingly against women – is by far the most common form of violence in the world. About 350 million women across the planet have suffered severe physical violence from their intimate partner.

A CGD blog with Sarah Dykstra. Back in the 1960s and 70s, the standard model of how to make poor countries rich was to insert capital, whether for investments in infrastructure or for human capital investments like education and health.

A CGD blog with Casey Dunning

A CGD blog. The World Bank is in the process of reforming its procurement system, the set of rules that borrowers have to follow when they use Bank financing to buy goods and services. Most of the proposals sound very sensible: much less prior review of the process for smaller contracts (World Ban…

A CGD blog with Casey Dunning

A CGD blog. In 2011, US officials admitted they used a fake vaccination drive in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of an effort to gather intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.

A CGD blog. With the Sustainable Development Goals Working Group busy in New York trying to whittle down its areas of interest into a plausible list of targets, two issues of &lsquo goal ownership’ have come to the fore. First, everyone seems very keen the goals should be universal but &lsquo countr…

A CGD blog. A set of more or less arbitrary lines continues to do very strange things to discussions about development.

A CGD blog with Lawrence MacDonald. CGD&#39 s Casey Dunning, Charles Kenny, and Jonathan Karver recently wrote an analysis with the provocative title Hating on the Hurdle, that offered constructive criticism of the Millennium Challenge Corporation&#39 s (MCC) approach to penalizing corruption using a hard hurdl…