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…

A CGD blog. Last week, CGD hosted a discussion with Alicia Phillips Mandaville and Andria Hayes-Birchler of the Millennium Challenge Corporation about the MCC’s &lsquo corruption hard hurdle’ &ndash the Corporation’s use of a corruption indicator as a key pass/fail component of selecting …

A CGD blog. Yesterday in a blog about the World Bank and open contracting, I mentioned the bank had put out more data on contracts that it finances. The covered contracts are those that were large enough for World Bank procurement procedures to mandate prior review by ba…

A CGD blog. Over the last few years, the World Bank has put a lot of thought and resources behind making contracting more transparent and to build up the capacity of citizens to get what they are paying for through government procurement. The bank has designed and financed innovative community-driven proj…

A CGD blog. In preparation for a CGD working group on government contract publication, we’ve been looking at how much information governments already put online about the contracts that they award. Australia current president of the G-20 is an interesting case. …