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Effectiveness <div class="clear"></div> </div> <h1 class="title"> Aid Effectiveness </h1>  <script type="text/javascript"> function toggleOverview() { var thetxt = jQuery(".toggle").html(); if ("Read More" == thetxt) { thetxt = "Read Less"; pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'read more click'); } else { thetxt = "Read More"; } jQuery(".content-trimmed").toggle(); jQuery(".content-full").toggle(); jQuery(".toggle").html(thetxt); } </script> <table style="width:100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td id="section-content" valign="top">  <div id="featured"> <div class="content-trimmed"><p>The Center’s work on aid effectiveness focuses on the policies and practices of bilateral and multilateral donors. It includes analyzing existing programs, monitoring donor innovations, and designing and promoting fresh approaches to deliver aid. CGD researchers also investigate how foreign aid and other aspects of development—such as trade, migration, investment, and climate change policies—undermine or complement each other.</p> </div> <div class="content-full" style="display:none"><p>The Center’s work on aid effectiveness focuses on the policies and practices of bilateral and multilateral donors. It includes analyzing existing programs, monitoring donor innovations, and designing and promoting fresh approaches to deliver aid. CGD researchers also investigate how foreign aid and other aspects of development—such as trade, migration, investment, and climate change policies—undermine or complement each other.</p>  <p>Specific work includes:</p> <ul> <ul> <li>Research, analysis, and policy outreach on U.S. foreign assistance reform through the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/assistance">Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Program</a> </li> <li>Monitoring the activities of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://www.mca.gov/">U.S. Millennium Challenge Account</a> (MCA) through CGD's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/mcamonitor">MCA Monitor</a> </li> <li>Comparative analysis of the three largest donor responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic: the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; the World Bank’s Multicountry HIV/AIDS Program (MAP); and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/hivmonitor">HIV/AIDS Monitor</a>.</li> <li>The design and promotion of a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/pbaedu">“Cash on Delivery” approach to aid</a> under which donors would pay for measurable progress on specific outcomes pre-agreed with recipient governments. </li> <li>Research on improving the effectiveness of health aid through CGD’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/ghprn">Global Health Policy Research Network</a>, including an initiative to close the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/evalgap">“evaluation gap”</a> and a major study of what has worked in health aid, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/ghprn/workinggroups/whatworks"><em>Millions Saved</em></a>.</li> <li>Research on aid in fragile states through the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/topics/fragile_states">Engaging Fragile States project</a>, and special analysis of the challenges confronting U.S. assistance to Pakistan <link to come>.</li> <li>Design of a new analytical tool to assess and compare bilateral and multilateral donors on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/topics/aid_effectiveness/aidquality">quality of aid</a>. In addition, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/cdi/_components/aid/indicators/">aid component</a> of CGD’s Commitment to Development Index includes indicators for both the quantity and quality of aid. </li> </ul></div> <div><a style="float:right" class="more-link toggle" href="javascript:;" onclick="toggleOverview();pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'read more click');">Read More</a></div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="tabbed-navigation"> <div class="tabs"> <span class="tab newest active" rel="newest" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'newest');">Newest</span> <span class="tab popular" rel="popular" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'popular');">Popular</span> <span class="tab" rel="publications" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'publications');">Publications</span> <span class="tab" rel="experts" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'experts');">Experts</span> <span class="tab" rel="research" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'initiatives');">Initiatives</span>  <span class="tab" rel="multimedia" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'multimedia');">Multimedia</span> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="tab-box newest active"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425806_image_Kenny_Sumner_MDG.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425806">More Money or More Development: What Have the MDGs Achieved? - Working Paper 278</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 12, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>This paper reflects on the global goal setting experience of the MDGs and what might be done differently if there is new round of MDGs after 2015.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425135_image_Savedoff_Martel_cod_health.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425135">Cash On Delivery Aid for Health: What Indicators Would Work Best? - Working Paper 275</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 1, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>This paper assesses the challenges of applying COD Aid in the health sector. 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A Preview into Round 9 of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Country Selection</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 7, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>This note offers a preliminary assessment of MCC candidate country scores on the FY2012 hard hurdles.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425586_image_CDI_2011_brief_thumb.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425586">Commitment to Development Index 2011</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 1, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>The Commitment to Development Index ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the 5.5 billion people living in poorer nations. Moving beyond standard comparisons of foreign aid volumes, the CDI quantifies a range of rich-country policies that affect...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425475_image_zipped_file.png&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425475">Data Tools for “When Does Rigorous Impact Evaluation Make a Difference? The Case of the Millennium Villages”</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 22, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>This data set contains the Stata code needed to replicate the data analysis in “When Does Rigorous Impact Evaluation Make a Difference? The Case of the Millennium Villages” (CGD Working Paper 225)</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425457_image_Veillette_Future_Aid_Reform.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425457">The Future of U.S. Aid Reform: Rhetoric, Reality, and Recommendations</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 19, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>This report takes a look at the Obama administration's FY2012 budget request and congressional reaction to gauge the potential for implementing foreign aid reforms as spelled out in the administration's policy documents.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <ul> </div> <div class="tab-box popular"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425642_image_Quoda_Busan_brief.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425642">Measuring the Quality of Aid: QuODA Second Edition (Brief for the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Busan, South Korea)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 14, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>This brief provides a summary of the forthcoming second edition of the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) Assessment sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425691_image_Walz_Ramachandran_brave_new_world.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425691">Brave New World: A Literature Review of Emerging Donors and the Changing Nature of Foreign Assistance - Working Paper 273</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 21, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>This paper investigates the scale and scope of emerging donors and ways the international donor community could encourage their greater transparency and accountability.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424378_image_EmergingAfricaCover_200.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424378">Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 16, 2010</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Since 1995, 17 African countries have defied expectations and have launched a remarkable, if little-noticed, turnaround. Emerging Africa describes this revitalization and why it is likely to continue.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425806_image_Kenny_Sumner_MDG.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425806">More Money or More Development: What Have the MDGs Achieved? - Working Paper 278</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 12, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>This paper reflects on the global goal setting experience of the MDGs and what might be done differently if there is new round of MDGs after 2015.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424271_image_the_clash_of_counter_bureaucracy_and_dev.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424271">The Clash of the Counter-bureaucracy and Development</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 1, 2010</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>In this essay, Andrew Natsios gives a first-hand account of what he finds most hinders USAID—layers of bureaucracy that misguide and derail development work.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425586_image_CDI_2011_brief_thumb.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425586">Commitment to Development Index 2011</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 1, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>The Commitment to Development Index ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the 5.5 billion people living in poorer nations. 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Making the details of construction contracts public is one proven way to help citizens get what they are paying for.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425457_image_Veillette_Future_Aid_Reform.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425457">The Future of U.S. Aid Reform: Rhetoric, Reality, and Recommendations</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 19, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>This report takes a look at the Obama administration's FY2012 budget request and congressional reaction to gauge the potential for implementing foreign aid reforms as spelled out in the administration's policy documents.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="tab-box experts"> <ul><ul> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423544_file_barder170.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1423544/">Owen Barder</a>, Senior Fellow and Director for Europe <div><p>Owen Barder's work focuses on transparency and accountability in aid and the political economy of development policies. 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He is a joint senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2721_file_walle_170.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2721/">Nicolas van de Walle</a>, Non-Resident Fellow <div><p>Nicolas van de Walle is a Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell and a nonresident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. He is the author of Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/11584_file_wheeler_170.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/11584/">David Wheeler</a>, Senior Fellow <div><p>David Wheeler leads CGD's work on climate change, which includes assessing the stakes for developing countries, integrating climate change into development assistance, and using public information disclosure to reduce emissions. He is the architect of two Web-based carbon monitoring databases, one...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul></ul> </div> <div class="tab-box publications"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425806_image_Kenny_Sumner_MDG.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425806/">More Money or More Development: What Have the MDGs Achieved? - Working Paper 278</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 12, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper reflects on the global goal setting experience of the MDGs and what might be done differently if there is new round of MDGs after 2015. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425135_image_Savedoff_Martel_cod_health.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425135/">Cash On Delivery Aid for Health: What Indicators Would Work Best? - Working Paper 275</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 1, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper assesses the challenges of applying COD Aid in the health sector. After clarifying how COD Aid differs from results-based financing approaches, the paper presents four key characteristics for designing a successful agreement. It discusses features of the health sector and foreign aid... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425760_image_Dunning_McCarthy_2012_selection.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425760/">Which Countries Will the MCC Board Likely Select as Eligible in FY2012?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 30, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This analysis draws upon MCC reports and country indicator performance to predict which countries will be made eligible to apply for FY2012 compact or threshold assistance. We offer a forecast of potential FY2012 eligible countries; it is not an official list of the countries that will... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425691_image_Walz_Ramachandran_brave_new_world.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425691/">Brave New World: A Literature Review of Emerging Donors and the Changing Nature of Foreign Assistance - Working Paper 273</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 21, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper investigates the scale and scope of emerging donors and ways the international donor community could encourage their greater transparency and accountability. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425688_image_Kenny_construction.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425688/">Publishing Construction Contracts as a Tool for Efficiency and Good Governance - Working Paper 272</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 21, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Construction is a vital part of development, but it often falls prey to poor governance and corruption. Making the details of construction contracts public is one proven way to help citizens get what they are paying for. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425642_image_Quoda_Busan_brief.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425642/">Measuring the Quality of Aid: QuODA Second Edition (Brief for the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Busan, South Korea)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 14, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This brief provides a summary of the forthcoming second edition of the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) Assessment sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425623_image_Dunning_McCarthy_preview.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425623/">Which Countries Pass the FY2012 Selection Hard Hurdles? A Preview into Round 9 of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Country Selection</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 7, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This note offers a preliminary assessment of MCC candidate country scores on the FY2012 hard hurdles. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425586_image_CDI_2011_brief_thumb.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425586/">Commitment to Development Index 2011</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 1, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Commitment to Development Index ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the 5.5 billion people living in poorer nations. Moving beyond standard comparisons of foreign aid volumes, the CDI quantifies a range of rich-country policies that affect... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425475_image_zipped_file.png&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425475/">Data Tools for “When Does Rigorous Impact Evaluation Make a Difference? The Case of the Millennium Villages”</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 22, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This data set contains the Stata code needed to replicate the data analysis in “When Does Rigorous Impact Evaluation Make a Difference? The Case of the Millennium Villages” (CGD Working Paper 225) </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425457_image_Veillette_Future_Aid_Reform.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425457/">The Future of U.S. Aid Reform: Rhetoric, Reality, and Recommendations</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 19, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This report takes a look at the Obama administration's FY2012 budget request and congressional reaction to gauge the potential for implementing foreign aid reforms as spelled out in the administration's policy documents. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425429_image_Leo_Thuotte_MDG_update.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425429/">MDG Progress Index 2011: The Good (<i>Country Progress</i>), the Bad (<i>Slippage</i>), and the Ugly (<i>Fickle Data</i>)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 9, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Ben Leo and Ross Thuotte check on the progress countries are making toward the Millennium Development Goals. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425413_image_CERP_brief.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425413/">The Commander’s Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan: Five Practical Recommendations (CGD Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 6, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The U.S. military has become substantially engaged in economic development and stabilization and will likely continue to be for some time to come. This brief takes U.S. military involvement in development as a given and concentrates on five recommendations for it to operate more efficiently and... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425397_image_Johnson_Ramachandran_Walz_CERP.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425397/">The Commanders Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan: Refining U.S. Military Capabilities in Stability and In-Conflict Development Activities - Working Paper 265</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 6, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The U.S. military has become substantially engaged in the development and stabilization space and will likely continue to operate in this space for some time to come. This paper proposed five policy changes for the military to improve its development activities. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425405_image_Savedoff_Incentive_Proliferation.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425405/">Incentive Proliferation? Making Sense of a New Wave of Development Programs</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 31, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> A new wave of development programs that explicitly use incentives to achieve their aims is under way.They are part of a trend, accelerating in recent years, to disburse development assistance against specific and measurable outputs or outcomes. With a proliferation of new ideas under names such as... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425347_image_Droggitis_Savedoff_Impact_Evaluation.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425347/">Measuring Impact: Lessons from the MCC for the Broader Impact Evaluation Community</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 4, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Independent impact evaluation is crucial to determine whether development interventions are effective; however, surprisingly few of these studies were conducted until recently. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425322_image_Dunning_et_al.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425322/">Fine-Tuning the MCC Selection Process and Indicators</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 21, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> To inform the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s review of its country selection process, the MCA Monitor has conducted a parallel review and offers five key recommendations. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425286_image_Barder_House_of_Lords.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425286/">Can Aid Work? Written Testimony Submitted to the House of Lords</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 13, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The main body of this short essay comprises written testimony that Owen Barder submitted to Britain’s House of Lords in response to a question about the effectiveness of foreign aid. In a brief introduction Barder draws upon his recent experience living in Ethiopia for three years to shed light... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425233_image_Kenny_Tech_USAID.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425233/">Technology and USAID: Three Cheers and a Thousand Cautions</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 6, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Charles Kenny investigates the complex role development agencies have in promoting technology overseas. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425165_image_Gelb_Decker_Biometrics.JPG&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425165/">Cash at Your Fingertips: Biometric Technology for Transfers in Developing and Resource-Rich Countries - Working Paper 253</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 2, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper surveys the arguments for and against cash-transfer programs in resource-rich states, discusses some of the new biometric identification technologies, and reaches preliminary conclusions about their potentially very large benefits for developing countries. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425116/">History of U.S. Aid and Reimbursements to Pakistan (Data Set)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 1, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> An accompaniment to the report Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan, this data set describes budgeted levels of U.S. military and economic assistance to Pakistan for the period from 1948 to 2010. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425068_image_Shafik_Dev_Finance_FINAL.GIF&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425068/">The Future of Development Finance - Working Paper 250</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 10, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Shafik highlights a key issue for aid practitioners: donors and recipients need the freedom to take risks, to experiment with new approaches, and to learn from failure as well as success. She emphasizes that evaluation and learning depend on transparency to allow citizens of recipient countries to... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425052_image_Norris_Veillette_Five_Steps.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425052/">Five Steps to Make Our Aid More Effective and Save More Than $2 Billion</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 5, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This brief details how the new Congress could save more than $500 million annually by eliminating unnecessary regulations currently in place that are incredibly wasteful, anticompetitive, and make it harder to carry out effective development programs abroad. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425010_image_Szekeley_cover.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425010/">Toward Results-Based Social Policy Design and Implementation - Working Paper 249</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 18, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper analyzes some of the elements that cause the perception in the realm of social policy that too little evidence is produced and used on the impact of specific policies and programs on human development. They propose we develop Results-Based Social Policy Design and Implementation systems... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424685_image_COD_Aid_pakistan.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424685/">The Challenge of Aid in Pakistan: Is Cash on Delivery Part of the Solution?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 29, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This brief examines options for a COD Aid contract in Pakistan’s education sector and its potential benefits for improving the relationship between official donors and the government of Pakistan, and for increasing the effectiveness of aid spending in Pakistan. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424950_image_Ergo_Puhl_trAid_cover.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424950/">TrAid+ Channeling Development Assistance to Results - Working Paper 247</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 29, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Traditional donor financing mechanisms tend to track inputs instead of results, lack transparency, accountability, and country ownership. These inefficiencies waste resources, erode the trust of aid constituencies, and fail to improve the lives of the poor. TrAid+ is a new mechanism that aims to... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424912/">COD Aid: Transfers for Transformation (Presentation)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 14, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In a presentation delivered at the UK Department for International Development on March 9, 2011, CGD president Nancy Birdsall spoke about opportunities and challenges for the implementation of Cash on Delivery Aid, an approach that allows aid agencies to address both short-term and long-term... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424877_image_Aid_for_a_Purpose.JPG&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424877/">Aid for a Purpose: Show Me the Goal, Then Show Me the Money</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 2, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this paper, Connie Veillette presents the problems that beset the existing process for budgeting and resource allocation, and argue that the process is backwards. Instead of using baseline budgets and existing resources to dictate objectives, policymakers should clearly define and articulate the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424793/">Getting to a “Grand Bargain” for Aid Reform: The Basic Framework for U.S. Foreign Assistance</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 1, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Arkedis focuses on understanding why long-term development is often subjugated to other objectives in the day-to-day planning processes of the U.S. government. She proposes one way to ensure that funding choices are made more rationally and systematically: by aligning the differing goals of aid... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424744_image_Birdsall_Elhai_shared_goals.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424744/">Shared Goals: Measuring <i>Overall</i> Development Progress in Pakistan</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 14, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> A new focus on measuring development results would have far-reaching benefits for U.S. development strategy, for U.S. public diplomacy efforts, and for the strength of Pakistan’s democratic institutions. In this essay, Nancy Birdsall and Wren Elhai suggest five possible indicators that... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424675_image_Blair_not_just_aid.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424675/">Not Just Aid: How Making Government Work Can Transform Africa (by Tony Blair)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 16, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Right Honourable Tony Blair discusses building strong African leadership in an essay prepared for a public address hosted by CGD on December 16, 2010. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424651_image_Pritchett_capability_cover.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424651/">Capability Traps? The Mechanisms of Persistent Implementation Failure - Working Paper 234</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 7, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Economic growth is one aspect of development; state capability is another. This paper shows that many countries remain in “state capability traps” and suggests ways to sabotage persistent techniques of failure. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424647_image_FY11_selection.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424647/">Round Eight of the MCA: Which Countries Will the MCC Board Likely Select as Eligible in FY2011</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 6, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This analysis draws upon two recent congressionally mandated reports and country indicator performance to predict which countries the MCC board will select as eligible to apply for FY2011 compact or threshold assistance. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424593_image_More_than_Money.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424593/">More than Money: Impact Investing for Development</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 6, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this report John Simon and Julia Barmier assess past and current efforts to indicate whether direct development investment is worth promoting as a matter of public policy. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424603_image_COD_Aid_brief_200.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424603/">Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid (brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 15, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This brief describes a new approach, Cash on Delivery Aid, which gives recipients full responsibility and authority over funds paid in proportion to verified measures of progress. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424561_image_CDI_2010.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424561/">Commitment to Development Index 2010</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 4, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the five billion people living in poorer nations. Moving beyond standard comparisons of foreign aid volumes, the CDI quantifies a range of rich country policies that... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424541_image_gelb_ida_cover.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424541/">How Can Donors Create Incentives for Results and Flexibility for Fragile States? A Proposal for IDA - Working Paper 227</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 27, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper offers a proposal to improve performance-based allocation systems of International Development Association (IDA) donors and others to better address the needs of fragile states and better link development allocations with performance. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424497_image_Leo_innovative_financing.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424497/">Can Donors Be Flexible within Restrictive Budget Systems? Options for Innovative Financing Mechanisms - Working Paper 226</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 11, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper focuses on how budgetary scorekeeping systems affect governments’ ability or willingness to support innovative development finance initiatives and explores several options to overcome the restrictions the systems often impose. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424496_image_Clemens_evaluations.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424496/">When Does Rigorous Impact Evaluation Make a Difference? The Case of the Millennium Villages - Working Paper 225</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 11, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The authors examine the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an experimental and intensive package intervention to spark sustained local economic development in rural Africa, to illustrate the benefits of rigorous impact evaluation. Estimates of the project’s effects depend heavily on the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424468_image_prowse_cover.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424468/">Aid for Trade: Supporting Trade Preference Reform - Working Paper 224</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 28, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> As many countries still lack supply-side capacity to fully participate in trade preference programs, aid-for-trade programs are necessary complements to facilitate capacity building, especially in poorer countries. In this paper, Susan Prowse exams current aid-for-trade delivery mechanisms, what is... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424378_image_EmergingAfricaCover_200.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424378/">Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 16, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Since 1995, 17 African countries have defied expectations and have launched a remarkable, if little-noticed, turnaround. Emerging Africa describes this revitalization and why it is likely to continue. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424399_image_cover.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424399/">Beyond Short-Term Thinking: How to Spend Billions Well in Pakistan, for Them and for Us</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 1, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This essay draws on the work of the Center for Global Development's Study Group on U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan and on the ideas in the group's open letters to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke to present five recommendations for spending aid money well in Pakistan. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424385_image_Zeroing_in_thumb.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424385/">Zeroing In: AIDS Donors and Africa’s Health Workforce</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 26, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This report focuses on the workforce strengthening strategies of three of the major HIV/AIDS donors—the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), and the World Bank’s Africa Multi-country HIV/AIDS... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424377_image_Leo_MDG_cover_thumb.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424377/">Who Are the MDG Trailblazers? A New MDG Progress Index - Working Paper 222</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 23, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this working paper, the authors introduce an MDG Progress Index to assess how on or off track countries are toward MDG targets. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424376_image_ribadu_cover_thumb.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424376/">Challenging Corruption in Africa: Beyond the Bleak Projections</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 23, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Visiting fellow Nuhu Ribadu reflects on his experience as the head of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the international work needed to challenge corruption in Africa. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424303_image_how_to_improve_CDI_thumbnail.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424303/">Twenty Concrete Steps to Improve the United States’ Commitment to Development</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 19, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The United States ranked 17th in the 2009 Commitment to Development Index with strengths in trade and security but weaknesses in aid and environment. This CGD Note describes how the United States could boost its score. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424271_image_the_clash_of_counter_bureaucracy_and_dev.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424271/">The Clash of the Counter-bureaucracy and Development</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 1, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this essay, Andrew Natsios gives a first-hand account of what he finds most hinders USAID—layers of bureaucracy that misguide and derail development work. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424253_image_the_end_of_ODA_II_.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424253/">The End of ODA (II): The Birth of Hypercollective Action - Working Paper 218</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 25, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Severino and Ray envision a new conceptual framework to manage the complexity of current international collaboration in development assistance. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424247_image_wheeler_tailor_essay_thumbnail_50_px.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424247/">Tailored Aid for a Tailored Age?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 24, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this short essay, senior fellow David Wheeler compares the world’s foreign assistance architecture to how the rest of the world operates in the digital age. He suggests that multilateral and bilateral transactions from one behemoth to another may be stuck in the past now that technology can... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424249_image_fourth_holbrooke_letter_thumbnail.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424249/">Adequate Staffing of the Development Assistance Program in Pakistan (Fourth open letter to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 23, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In the fourth open letter to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Nancy Birdsall conveys the recommendations of the CGD study group on a U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan for necessary strengthening of USAID's staff capacity to better design and deploy an effective development strategy in the country. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424197_image_Leo_cover.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424197/">Leveraging World Bank Resources for the Poorest: IDA Blended Financing Facility Proposal - Working Paper 214</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 8, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> CGD research fellow Ben Leo estimates that the World Bank could provide an extra $7.5 billion to the poorest countries over the next three years by adjusting the balance sheets of IDA and IBRD, its main lending arms. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424196_image_IDA_letter.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424196/">Proposal for an IDA Blended Financing Facility (Policy Memo)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 8, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Against the backdrop of the fast approaching Millennium Development Goals deadline, World Bank shareholders have an opportunity to dramatically increase resources available for the poorest, most vulnerable countries. By better leveraging the IBRD’s balance sheet for creditworthy blend and... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424155_image_washington_consensus.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424155/">The Washington Consensus: Assessing a Damaged Brand - Working Paper 213</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 4, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Nancy Birdsall, Augusto de la Torre, and Felipe Valencia Caicedo analyze the Washington Consensus, from its early beginnings to failure as a reform agenda. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424103_image_letter_to_ambassador_holbrooke.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424103/">U.S. Development Assistance to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Second open letter to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke)</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 3, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In the second open letter to Ambassador Holbrooke, Nancy Birdsall conveys recommendations from the second meeting of the CGD Study Group on U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan, focused on the policies and programs that would be most effective in dealing with the security and development... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424093_image_what_not_to_expect_for_microfinance_in_haiti.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424093/">What (Not) to Expect of Microfinance in Haiti - Testimony for the House Financial Services Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 26, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> David Roodman testifies before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade about supporting Haiti's private sector </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424036_image_holbrooke_first_letter.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424036/">U.S. Development Assistance to Pakistan (Open letter to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 29, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In an open letter to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Nancy Birdsall relays four main suggestions from the CGD Study Group on a U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan about how U.S. assistance should be delivered to maximize development outcomes. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423965/">The U.S. Aid “Surge” to Pakistan: Repeating a Failed Experiment? Lessons for U.S. Policymakers from the World Bank’s Social-Sector Lending in the 1990s - Working Paper 205</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 17, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This working paper re-releases a 2005 CGD analysis of failed World Bank aid to Pakistan in the 1990s and identifies the lessons that are relevant today, as aid to Pakistan surges again. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423949_image_cash_on_delivery.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423949/">Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 16, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes serious reform to make aid work well by forcing accountability, aligning the objectives of funders and recipients, and sharing information about what works. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423802/">Reviving the Global Education Compact: Four Options for Global Education Funding</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 11, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this essay, visiting fellow Desmond Bermingham describes the framework for a better “global education compact” between donor and recipient nations and four possible arrangements to mobilize and allocate development assistance for education. He highlights the advantages and disadvantages of... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423538/">Peace-Building without External Assistance: Lessons from Somaliland - Working Paper 198</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 11, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper examines how the lack of recognition of Somaliland by the international community—and the consequent ineligibility for foreign financial assistance—has shaped the region's political development. It finds evidence that Somaliland’s ineligibility for foreign aid facilitated the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423498/">Bases, Bullets, and Ballots: The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Political Conflict in Colombia - Working Paper 197</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 4, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Does foreign military assistance strengthen or further weaken fragile states facing internal conflict? In a new working paper, CGD post-doctoral fellow Oeindrila Dube and co-author Suresh Naidu find that U.S. military assistance to Colombia may increase violence and decrease voter turnout,... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423404.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423404/">Aid, Dutch Disease, and Manufacturing Growth - Working Paper 196</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 18, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Decades of research have been unable to conclusively show either a positive or negative effect of aid on economic growth in poor countries. CGD senior fellow Arvind Subramanian and Raghuram G. Rajan use a new technique in their latest working paper that suggests aid slows the manufacturing sector... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423352.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423352/">Introduction to Microfinance for Development, Georgetown University (Syllabus)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 7, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This course explores the role of microfinance in economic development. It will discuss how poor people in poor countries use financial services such as credit and savings; the history and practice of delivering such services; what is known about their contribution to development; and how stories... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423285.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423285/">Will World Bank and IMF Lending Lead to HIPC IV? Debt Deja-Vu All Over Again - Working Paper 193</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 23, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Benjamin Leo, formerly of the U.S. Treasury and National Security Council and a key behind-the-scenes player in the inception and implementation of Multilateral Debt Relief Initiatives, examines the potential risk of renewed debt re-accumulation by countries that have only recently completed the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1422971.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1422971/">Beyond Planning: Markets and Networks for Better Aid - Working Paper 185</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 15, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> International aid works, but it could work much better. Reform efforts focused on better planning often ignore what constrains aid agencies and takes the bite out of their commitments. In this working paper, Owen Barder shows how forming a "collaborative market" around aid—one marked by... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1422445.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1422445/">Development Aid and Its Criticisms: The View from Zambia</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 16, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> CGD policy analyst Lindsay Morgan explores the reality of aid-supported development in Zambia from three (very different) perspectives of people working there, in light of Dambisa Moyo's book, Dead Aid. She sheds light on a fundamental paradox of the aid business (huge donor efforts, much good, and... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1422178_image_performance_incentives.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1422178/">Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 15, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Donor spending on global health has surged, yet for many poor people in developing countries even basic prevention and treatment remain elusive. CGD’s newest book, Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls, shows how modest payments in cash or kind can get more health from... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1416837/">What's Behind the Recent Declines in U.S. Foreign Assistance?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 8, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Total U.S. development assistance has fallen 22 percent since 2005 from $27.9 billion to $21.8 billion in 2007. In real terms, this was the smallest amount since 2002, excluding assistance to Iraq, Afghanistan, and HIV/AIDS programs. Senior fellow Steve Radelet and his coauthors examine the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/205642/">Which Countries Make the FY2009 Corruption Cut? - MCA Monitor</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 2, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> With the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) soon to release the scorecards and performance data that form the basis of the FY09 country selection round, Sheila Herrling and Amy Crone examine how countries fare on the control of corruption indicator, the only “hard hurdle” that countries must... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/16560_image_hp_potus_cover_thumb.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16560/">The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 22, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President shows how modest changes in U.S. policies could greatly improve the lives of poor people in developing countries, thus fostering greater stability, security, and prosperity globally and at home. Center for Global... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16559/">U.S. Foreign Assistance for the Twenty-first Century (White House and the World Policy Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 22, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Meeting today’s foreign policy challenges requires a new vision of American global leadership based on the strength of our core values, ideas, and ingenuity. It calls for an integrated foreign policy that promotes our ideals, enhances our security, helps create economic and political... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16551/">A Little Less Talk: Six Steps to Get Some Action from the Accra Agenda</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 21, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In September 2008 official aid donors and recipients will meet in Accra, Ghana, to discuss how to make development assistance more effective. CGD president Nancy Birdsall and co-author Kate Vyborny suggest that advocates of better aid who really want a win at Accra forget haggling over broad... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16459/">Seizing the Opportunity on AIDS and Health Systems</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 4, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Donors spend billions of dollars to fight HIV/AIDS in developing countries, but poor integration between donors and host country health systems risks undermining international efforts to prevent and treat AIDS. In this analysis, CGD’s HIV/AIDS Monitor argues that donors need to pay more... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16446/">Reinventing Foreign Aid</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 31, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In Reinventing Foreign Aid, CGD non-resident fellow William Easterly has gathered top scholars in the field to discuss how to improve foreign aid. These authors, Easterly points out, are not claiming that their ideas will (to invoke a current slogan) Make Poverty History. Rather, they take on... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16247/">Measuring Progress with Tests of Learning: Pros and Cons for "Cash on Delivery Aid" in Education - Working Paper 147</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 16, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Improving education has been a central goal of international development for decades, and the best indicators of improvement measure student performance. But can such measurements be used as incentives to stimulate more rapid improvement in education? There are no simple answers to this question... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16085/">George Bush's Foreign Aid: Transformation or Chaos?</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 16, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this new CGD book, visiting fellow Carol Lancaster analyzes the dramatic changes in U.S. foreign aid during the Bush administration, including the increased use of aid to address failed states and to fight the global war on terror, the establishment of an entirely new aid agency—the Millennium... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15659/">Power and Roads for Africa</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 31, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> CGD senior fellow Vijaya Ramachandran argues in this essay that the next U.S. president can play a valuable role in helping Africa to overcome two crucial barriers to poverty reduction: lack of power and lack of roads. Ramachandran urges the next president to create a $1 billion Clean Energy Fund... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15561/">Modernizing Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century: An Agenda for the Next U.S. President</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 17, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), the new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has vowed a major overhaul of U.S. foreign assistance. He joins a growing list of members of Congress and the defense, diplomacy and development community who recognize that U.S. foreign assistance programs are... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15423/">U.S. Assistance to Africa and the World: What Do the Numbers Say?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 19, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> With President Bush's trip to Africa making headlines this week, CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet and research assistant Sami Bazzi offer a close look at the latest U.S. foreign assistance numbers. Bottom line: although America's aid has more than doubled since 2000, the new money went mostly to... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/5492/">Net Aid Transfers data set (1960-2009) - Updated January 28, 2011</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 25, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> David Roodman, creator of the Commitment to Development Index (CDI), has devised a measure of foreign aid flows that takes into account the interest payments that developing countries make to rich country creditors. The Net Aid Transfers data set, which is a component of the CDI, is now available... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15197/">Cracking Down on Rich-World Bribe Payers</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 17, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is supposed to prevent U.S. corporations from giving bribes while conducting business abroad--bribes that encourage corruption in poor countries and stymie development. But some corporations use gaping loopholes in the law and its international counterpart,... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15105/">Through the Looking-Glass, and What OLS Found There: On Growth, Foreign Aid, and Reverse Causality - Working Paper 137</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 7, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The econometric quest for evidence on aid effectiveness continues. Practitioners in the $80 billion-a-year aid enterprise care about their work and hanker for objective evidence that they are helping. In this working paper, CGD research fellow David Roodman argues that there is a clear aid-growth... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15003/">Macro Aid Effectiveness Research: A Guide for the Perplexed - Working Paper 135</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 10, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The argument about whether foreign aid "works" rages on. Recently, Paul Collier sought a practical middle path between William Easterly's development pessimism and Jeffrey Sach's development boosterism. How can smart people draw such contradictory conclusions from the same data? This new working... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14914/">Round Five Of The MCA: Which Countries Are Most Likely To Be Selected For FY2008?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 26, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> On December 12, the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) Board will choose which countries are eligible for FY2008 funding in what may be the toughest selection round to date. With funding tight, new countries passing the performance test, half of the countries with signed compacts failing, and an MCC... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14873/">The Impact of FY2008 Funding Options on the MCA: From Saving Face to Saving the Program</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 16, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Amid a contentious FY2008 budget round between Congress and the White House, foreign assistance -- particularly that for development -- may face cuts during negotiations. The Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) -- one of few U.S. foreign aid programs specifically targeted to long-term development... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14716/">The Commitment to Development Index 2007 Report</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 25, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Each year since 2003, the Commitment to Development Index (CDI) has ranked 21 rich countries on their dedication (or not!) to policies that benefit the five billion people living in poor countries. The CDI moves beyond simple comparisons of aid funding and in so doing embodies the mission of CGD,... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14677/">Which Countries Might Trip on the Millennium Challenge Account Corruption Hurdle?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 22, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) will soon release performance data that will form the basis of its FY2008 country selection round. The only indicator that countries must pass to qualify for MCC money is Control of Corruption. CGD's Sheila Herrling and Sarah Rose have crunched the numbers for... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14565/">The 2007 Commitment to Development Index: Components and Results</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 10, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This CGD brief summarizes the results of the 2007 Commitment to Development Index (CDI), which ranks 21 of the world's richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the five billion people living in poorer nations. The Netherlands comes in first on the 2007 CDI on the strength of... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14493/">Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health (2007 Edition)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 27, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In 2004 a working group of experts was convened by the Center for Global Development to identify cases in which large-scale efforts to improve health in developing countries have succeeded—saving millions of lives and preserving the livelihoods and social fabric of entire communities. Seventeen... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14424/">Aiding Transparency: What We Can Learn About China Exim Bank's Concessional Loans - Working Paper 126</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 17, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Aid experts interested in China's rapidly expanding development assistance program—particularly in Africa—have been frustrated by lack of information. How much aid is Beijing giving, and to whom? In this new working paper, Paul Hubbard fills in a piece of the puzzle by using... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14379/">Helping the Bottom Billion: Is There a Third Way in the Development Debate?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 10, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Paul Collier's new book, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, argues that many developing countries are doing just fine and that the real development challenge is the 58 countries that are economically stagnant and caught in one or more "traps":... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14316/">Investing in People by Investing in Data: How Best to Incorporate the New MCA Eligibility Indicators</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 27, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation will soon decide how to incorporate two new natural resources indicators—a Natural Resource Management Index (NRMI) and a Land Rights and Access indicator—into the FY2008 country selection process. In a new paper by CGD’s MCA Monitor... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14256/">A Note on the Theme of Too Many Instruments - Working Paper 125</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 13, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> *REVISED Version May 2008In development economics, statistical analysis usually begins with data from many observational units--households, companies, or countries--over just a few time periods. Two analysis techniques are becoming popular for studying causal relationships among variables in this... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14103/">Does the IMF Constrain Health Spending in Poor Countries? Evidence and an Agenda For Action</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 23, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This report of the CGD working group on IMF Programs and Health Spending explores the controversy that surrounds IMF-supported programs in low-income countries and their effect on the health sector. Critics contend that programs unduly constrain health spending though macroeconomic, especially... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14104/">Does the IMF Constrain Health Spending in Poor Countries? (Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 23, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This brief summarizes the findings of the CGD working group on IMF Programs and Health Spending, convened in fall 2006 to investigate the effect of International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs on health spending in low-income countries. The report offers clear, practical recommendations for... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14002/">A White House Focus on Social Justice in Latin America?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 9, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> A White House conference on social justice in Latin America this week may signal a shift to U.S. engagement with the region that goes beyond security, free trade, and anti-narcotics efforts. CGD president Nancy Birdsall and Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, suggest seven ways... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423453/">The Millennium Challenge Account In Africa: Testimony Before the House Committee On Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 28, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Testimony Before the House Committee On Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13953/">The Chinese Aid System</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 27, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Chinese foreign aid is rising fast and Western aid agencies are concerned: will Chinese aid undermine efforts to promote reform in Africa and elsewhere? Will Chinese loans burden poor countries with fresh debt? In this new essay, CGD visiting fellow Carol Lancaster provides a concise and accessible... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13935/">Greater Than the Sum Of Its Parts? Assessing "Whole of Government" Approaches to Fragile States (Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 25, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Fragile states--countries defined by poverty, weak governance and often violent conflict--represent a major development challenge for today's global aid community and a significant threat to global security. This CGD Brief offers recommendations for how donors can best engage weak countries,... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13860/">The World Bank's Work in the Poorest Countries: Five Recommendations for a New IDA</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 11, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This CGD working group report offers five practical recommendations for strengthening the International Development Association (IDA)--the World Bank's soft-loan facility for the world's poorest countries--as donors begin replenishment talks that will shape IDA's course from mid-2008 through... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13784/">A Risky Business: Saving Money and Improving Global Health Through Better Demand Forecasts</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 29, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This report of CGD's Global Health Forecasting Working Group, which was convened in early 2006 by senior fellow and director of programs Ruth Levine to sort out why demand forecasting has been so problematic, provides an elegant analysis of the problem and a sensible agenda for action. Their report... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13717/">A Risky Business: Saving Money and Improving Global Health Through Better Demand Forecasts (Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 18, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Achieving better health in poor countries depends in part on giving companies that produce drugs, vaccines and diagnostics incentives to invest in their production by improving their ability to forecast which products will be purchased by whom in what quantities. This brief reviews the findings of... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13710/">Lessons from Seven Countries: Reflections on the Millennium Challenge Account</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 17, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Since its inception in 2004 the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has been an experiment in improving the effectiveness of U.S. foreign aid in a small set of poor but well-governed countries. This new MCA Monitor Analysis brief based on visits to seven Millennium Challenge Account (MCA)... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13711/">Following the Money: Toward Better Tracking of Global Health Resources</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 17, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Developing countries, donor agencies, and private philanthropies devote about $500 billion a year to improve the health of people in the developing world. But the lack of timely, accurate information about how this money is spent is undermining its impact. This problem can be solved. A working... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13447/">What Have IMF Programs With Low-Income Countries Assumed About Aid Flows? - Working Paper 116</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 9, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper examines IMF projections of donor aid to low-income countries and whether these projections changed after world leaders pledged at the 2005 Gleneagles G8 summit to double aid to Africa by 2010. The authors find that IMF projections since the post-Gleneagles Summit have shown little... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13398/">Will the Millennium Challenge Account Be Caught in the Crosshairs? A Critical Year for Full Funding</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 30, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> As Congress gears up to allocate some $36 billion in the international affairs budget across a multitude of foreign aid programs, CGD senior policy analyst Sheila Herrling and research assistant Sarah Rose ask whether the MCA should receive the full $3 billion requested by the president for the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13232/">Billions for War, Pennies for the Poor: Moving the President's FY2008 Budget from Hard Power to Smart Power</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 16, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> President Bush's FY2008 budget request provides a first glimpse into how the administration's new foreign assistance framework and transformational diplomacy agenda translate into who gets how much for what. In this CGD essay, authors Samuel Bazzi, Sheila Herrling and Stewart Patrick, show that the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13115/">Do No Harm: Aid, Weak Institutions, and the Missing Middle in Africa - Working Paper 113</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 8, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Does aid to Africa undermine the emergence of a robust African middle class? If so, what can be done about it? In this new working paper, CGD president Nancy Birdsall argues that high and unpredictable aid flows could be making life harder for Africa's small and medium-sized businesses by, for... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13029/">A Trickle or a Flood: Commitments and Disbursement for HIV/AIDS from the Global Fund, PEPFAR, and the World Bank's Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 5, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In response to both public health imperative and unprecedented political pressure, aid to fight HIV/AIDS has increased massively in recent years: global funding to combat the disease in low- and middle-income countries has more than tripled since 2001, from $2.1 billion to an estimated $8.9 billion... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13030/">African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 5, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Bill Easterly calls Moss' new introduction to Africa "compulsively readable and accessible" and "a masterpiece of clear thinking." Each chapter is organized around three fundamental questions: Where are we now? How did we get to this point? What are the current debates? CGD's package of materials... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/12327/">Group Versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines - Working Paper 111, updated May 2009</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 29, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Group liability--wherein individuals are both borrowers and guarantors of other client's loans--is often described as the key innovation that led to the explosion of microcredit. It is thought to create incentives for peers to screen, monitor and enforce each other's loans. But some argue that... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/12328/">Credit Elasticities in Less-Developed Economies: Implications for Microcredit - Working Paper 110</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 29, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Policymakers often urge microfinance institutions to increase interest rates to eliminate reliance on subsidies. This makes sense if the poor will borrow regardless of interest rates: then micro lenders increase profitability without reducing the poor's access to credit. But there is little... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/12329/">Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Report - Working Paper 109</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 29, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Information asymmetries--which occur when one party to a transaction has more or better information than the other party--can cause inefficiency, over-investment, or poverty traps. Unfortunately, they are difficult to identify in practice. In this working paper, CGD non-resident fellow Dean... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/12330/">Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts - Working Paper 108</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 29, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Microfinance is generally credited with helping to alleviate poverty and improve the lives of the poor. But as microfinance institutions move beyond entrepreneurial credit to offering consumer loans, many practitioners and policymakers are skeptical about "unproductive" lending. In this working... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/12331/">Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions - Working Paper 107, updated May 2009</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 29, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Can one teach basic entrepreneurship skills? A growing number of microfinance organizations are trying, in the hopes of improving the livelihood of their clients and to further their mission of poverty alleviation. In this working paper, CGD non-resident fellow Dean Karlan and his co-author... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/12332/">Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines - Working Paper 106</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 29, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Microfinance is often viewed as a tool for empowering women. However, it is not clear that increasing a woman's share of household income also improves her status within the household. In this working paper, CGD non-resident fellow Dean Karlan and his co-authors examine whether access to... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/12333/">Expand and Enhance: A Proposal to Strengthen the MCA Eligibility Process When Adding the Natural Resource Indicators</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 26, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This week the Millennium Challenge Corp. briefed staff-level representatives of its Board on plans to add two new indicators, for Natural Resources Management and Land Rights and Access, to the country eligibility criteria starting with the FY 2008. Expand and Enhance: A Proposal to Strengthen the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/12285/">U.S. Aid to Africa After the Midterm Elections? A "Surprise Party" Update</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 25, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> U.S. aid to Africa soared during President Bush's first term, to more than twice the level of any previous administration. But the newly divided government--Democratic Congress, Republican White House--could mean a cut in aid. In this CGD Note senior fellow Todd Moss uses just-released data from... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/11550/">Payments for Progress: A Hands-Off Approach to Foreign Aid - Working Paper 102</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 4, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The aid business has long grappled with the trade-off between showing results and supporting a country's own institution-building. Donors want to be sure that their money makes a difference, and often quickly. But close monitoring raises costs and pushing for quick results leads to projects that... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13708/">Adding the Natural Resources Indicators: An Opportunity to Strengthen the MCA Eligibility Process</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 7, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This analysis from CGD's MCA Monitor describes two new indicators of governance and policy performance that determine a country’s eligibility for Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) finance: Natural Resources Management Index and Land Rights & Access. The authors analyze the process that led to... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13707/">Round Four of the MCA: Which Countries are Most Likely to Be Selected for FY2007?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 30, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This note explores the countries most likely to be selected for FY07 eligibility for the Millennium Challenge Account. The authors also discuss key issues the Board will face this year, including deciding eligibility for the four countries with signed compacts that do not pass the indicator test.... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/10497/">U.S. Foreign Aid Reform: Will It Fix What Is Broken?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 29, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In U.S. Foreign Aid Reform: Will It Fix What Is Broken? CGD research fellow Stewart Patrick says the U.S. foreign aid regime is broken, and it is not clear that the Bush administration's reform plan will fix it. Patrick proposes a total overhaul of the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act and the creation... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/10016/">Measuring Commitment to Health: Global Health Indicators Working Group Report</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 7, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In response to a request from the Millennium Challenge Corporation, CGD convened the Global Health Indicators Working Group to examine potential measures of a government's commitment to health. The group's report recommends eight indicators for consideration by the MCC and other donors as they... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/9373/">Fragile States and U.S. Foreign Assistance: Show Me the Money - Working Paper 96</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 14, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Analysis of the U.S. budget reveals a chasm between Washington rhetoric about the potentially large threats arising from weak and failing states and the paucity of resources devoted to engaging with these troubled countries. The authors argue that the U.S. should think creatively about how and when... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/8846/">A Primer on Foreign Aid - Working Paper 92</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 24, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Controversies about aid effectiveness go back decades. This new working paper by CGD senior fellow Steven Radelet provides an introduction and overview of the basic concepts, data and key debates about foreign aid. It explores the range of views on the relationship between foreign aid and economic... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/8709/">A Policymakers' Guide to Dutch Disease - Working Paper 91</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 11, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> It is sometimes claimed that big surges in aid might cause Dutch Disease--an appreciation of the real exchange rate which can slow the growth of a country's exports--and that aid increases might thereby harm a country's long-term growth prospects. In this new working paper CGD senior program... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/8633/">Are the planned increases in aid too much of a good thing? - Working Paper 90</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 6, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Donor countries have pledged to increase aid by 60 percent over the next five years, and larger increases would be needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Can developing countries use more aid effectively? In this new working paper, CGD senior program associate Owen Barder argues that the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/8488/">Competitive Proliferation of Aid Projects: A Model - Working Paper 89</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 26, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> When aid projects proliferate, donors often seek better oversight through smaller projects. While this may improve administration, it burdens recipient governments with reporting requirements and donor visits. CGD research fellow David Roodman suggests in a new working paper that big projects are... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2852/">U.S. Assistance for Global Development</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 15, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> U.S. "development assistance" refers to the transfer of resources from the United States to developing countries and to some strategic allies. It is delivered in the form of money (via loans or grants), contributions of goods (such as food aid), and technical assistance. Learn more about Rich... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2851/">Global HIV/AIDS and the Developing World</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 15, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> HIV/AIDS is one of the largest challenges facing the global community. The disease has reduced life expectancy by more than a decade in the hardest hit countries and slashed productivity, making it even harder for poor countries to escape poverty. Global HIV/AIDS and the Developing World, a CGD... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2850/">Why Global Development Matters for the U.S.</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 15, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Development refers to improvements in the conditions of people’s lives, such as health, education, and income. It occurs at different rates in different countries. The U.S. underwent its own version of development since the time it became an independent nation in 1776. Learn more about Rich... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2844/">Education and the Developing World</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 12, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Given all the other pressing worries, why was education among the issues that G8 leaders discussed at the St. Petersburg Summit? Education and the Developing World, a CGD Rich World/Poor World Brief, explains why investing in education is not just the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do.... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/7973/">When Will We Ever Learn? Improving Lives Through Impact Evaluation</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 31, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Each year billions of dollars are spent on thousands of programs to improve health, education and other social sector outcomes in the developing world. But very few programs benefit from studies that could determine whether or not they actually made a difference. This absence of evidence is an... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/7972/">Learning from Development: the Case for an International Council to Catalyze Independent Impact Evaluations of Social Sector Interventions</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 31, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This brief outlines the problems that inhibit learning in social development programs, describes the characteristics of a collective international solution, and shows how the international community can accelerate progress by learning what works in social policy. It draws heavily on the work of... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/6661/">Building and Running an Effective Policy Index: Lessons from the Commitment to Development Index</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 13, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Commitment to Development Index (CDI), which ranks 21 countries across six policy areas, is widely seen as the most comprehensive and substantive measure of rich country policies towards development. In response to requests from other would-be index builders, CDI architect David Roodman... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/6303/">Tax policies to promote private charitable giving in DAC countries<br>-Working Paper 82</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 17, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this working paper, David Roodman and Scott Standley analyze the use of tax incentives in rich countries to promote private charity. They discuss tax policy as de facto aid policy, and policy implications. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/6237/">Reforming U.S. Development Policy</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 12, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> As the Bush Administration prepares to announce the reorganization of U.S. foreign assistance, Nancy Birdsall, Stewart Patrick and Milan Vaishnav argue in a new essay that making a dent in global poverty will require that the U.S. address four flaws: low volume and poor quality of aid; incoherence... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/5673/">Aid Project Proliferation and Absorptive Capacity<br>-Working Paper 75</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 11, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> At a time when the international dialogue surrounding development is focused on increasing the quantity of aid, this paper focuses on how each dollar of foreign assistance can be more effective in reducing poverty. Using a sophisticated mathematical modeling process, the author explores the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/5646/">An Aid-Institutions Paradox? <br>A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in <br>Sub-Saharan Africa- Working Paper 74</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 10, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Does foreign aid help develop public institutions and state capacity in developing countries? In this Working Paper, the authors suggest that despite recent calls for increased aid to poor countries by the international community, there may be an "aid-institutions paradox." While donor intentions... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/5342/">Food Aid: Doing Well by Doing Good</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 12, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Are we doing well by doing good? This CGD Note by C. Peter Timmer explores the alliance between US farmers, processors and shippers that forms the political foundation of the US food aid program. The Note outlines the current winners and losers of US food aid, and argues that surprisingly, the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/4436/">After the Big Push? Fiscal and Institutional Implications <br>of Large Aid Increases - Working Paper 71</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 12, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In addition to the possible benefits from increased aid, what might also be the downside? From the recent G8 Summit to UN declarations, calls for a "Big Push" in official development assistance by OECD countries are becoming more frequent and pressing. In this working paper, CGD Research Fellow... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/4371/">Reforming Development Assistance: <br>Lessons from the UK Experience-Working Paper 70</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 5, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Economist has called the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) "a model for other rich countries." CGD Senior Program Associate Owen Barder, a former director of information, communications, and knowledge at DFID, provides an insider's account in: Learn more </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/3822/">Ghost of 0.7%: Origins and Relevance of the International Aid Target - Working Paper 68</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 6, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The international goal for rich countries to devote 0.7% of their national income to development assistance has become a cause célèbre for aid activists and has been accepted in many official quarters as the legitimate target for aid budgets. The origins of the target, however, raise serious... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/3646/">An Index of Donor Performance - Working Paper 67 (Revised October 2011)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 1, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this working paper, CGD research fellow David Roodman describes the methodology of the foreign aid component of the 2011 edition of the Commitment to Development Index. The CDI ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the 5.5 billion people living... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/3647/">2005 Commitment to Development Index</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 29, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) of the Center for Global Development ranks 21 of the world’s richest countries by evaluating their stance on seven domains of government policy to determine how those policies affect developing countries. This brief summarizes the components and results... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/3486_image_2015.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/3486/">Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs <br>in Economic Development - Working Paper 65</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 16, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Bill Easterly challenges a central rationale of the push for the 2015 Millennium Development Goals: the idea that poverty can be overcome with a big push in foreign aid and investment. Instead, change must come from the bottom up, he says. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2870/">U.S. Pledges of Aid to Africa: Let's Do the Numbers</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 19, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Before the G-8 Summit, President Bush said that U.S. aid to Africa had tripled since he took office and would double again by 2010. CGD’s Steve Radelet and Bilal Siddiqi find that total U.S. aid to the region has doubled, but not tripled, since 2000, continuing an upward trend that began in 1996.... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2863/">The Global War on Terror and U.S. Development Assistance: USAID allocation by country, 1998-2005 - Working Paper 62</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 18, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The launch of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) soon after September 11, 2001 has been predicted to fundamentally alter U.S. foreign aid programs. In particular, there is a common expectation that development assistance will be used to support strategic allies in the GWOT, perhaps at the expense of... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2681/">Grants for the World’s Poorest: How the World Bank Should Distribute Its Funds</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 7, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Time to put to rest the stale debate over whether the World Bank should disburse grants or loans to the world’s poorest countries. It is critical that the Bank provide more of its funding as grants, but in a more rational manner than has been the case to date. A third Bank window should... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2868/">The Hardest Job in the World: Five Crucial Tasks <br>for the New President of the World Bank</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 1, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This report was prepared by a Working Group convened by the Center for Global Development to identify key priorities the Paul Wolfowitz at the start of his tenure at the World Bank on June 1, 2005. It argues that Wolfowitz's biggest challenge will not be managing the Bank, with its 10,000 staff,... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423423/">Reflections on "Our Common Interest," The Report of the Commission on Africa</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 17, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> CGD President Nancy Birdsall testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 on the Commission for Africa report initiated by Tony Blair. She suggested the U.S. should prepare a package of Africa-related initiatives for the UK-hosted G-8 Summit in July covering... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423424/">The Millennium Challenge Account: Making the Vision a Reality</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 27, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Senior Fellow Steve Radelet testified in front of the House International Relations Committee on the Millennium Challenge Account. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2791/">Connecting the Poor to Economic Growth: Eight Key Questions</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 26, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> It has long been understood that economic growth is the essential foundation for poverty reduction. The key to income growth is the expansion of jobs that pay sustainable remunerative wages, and the two keys areas of production in this vein have almost always been agriculture and labor-intensive... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/3097/">Gold for Debt: What's New and What Next?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 1, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This new CGD Note by Center for Global Development President Nancy Birdsall and Institute for International Economics Senior Fellow John Williamson argues that sale of a portion of IMF gold makes sense as a way to create a more transparent institution and use a global resource for debt relief for... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2871_image_overcomingstagnationaiddependentcountries.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2871/">Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 31, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this book, Nicolas van de Walle identifies 26 countries that are extremely poor and grew little if at all in the 1990s. His sample excludes North Korea and countries where civil war explains some of their failure to grow (Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tajikistan and others). The 26 countries... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2795/">Double Standards on IDA and Debt: The Case for Reclassifying Nigeria</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 1, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Although nearly all poor countries are classified by the World Bank as IDA-only, Nigeria stands out as a notable exception. Indeed, Africa’s most populous country is the poorest country in the world that is not classified as IDA-only. Under the World Bank’s own criteria, however, Nigeria has a... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2735/">From Pushing Reforms to Pulling Reforms: The Role of Challenge Programs in Foreign Aid Policy - Working Paper Number 53</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 5, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper considers what role pull instruments or challenge programs (such as the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Support Credits or the United States' Millennium Challenge Account) could play within the overall framework of foreign aid, asking how they could be designed to function as effective... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2834/">A Better Globalization: Legitimacy, Governance, and Reform (Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 1, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This brief summarizes five key recommendations from the CGD book A Better Globalization: Legitimacy, Governance, and Reform by Kemal Dervis. It presses for reform on a broad front with a renewed, more legitimate, and more effective United Nations as the overarching framework for global governance... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2737/">Seven Deadly Sins: Reflections on Donor Failings - Working Paper Number 50</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 8, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In the face of continuing development challenges in the world's poorest countries, there have been new calls throughout the donor community to increase the volume of development aid. Equal attention is needed to reform of the aid business itself, that is, the practices and processes and procedures... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2841_image_ms_cover.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2841/">Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 30, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Millions Saved: Proven Success in Global Health is about part of that success story: 17 cases in which large-scale efforts to improve health in developing countries have succeeded - saving millions of lives and preserving the livelihoods and social fabric of entire communities. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2840/">Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health (Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 30, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This Brief is based on the CGD book Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health. The book book features 17 success stories. These cases describe some large-scale efforts to improve health in developing countries that have succeeded - saving millions of lives and preserving the livelihoods... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2739/">Underfunded Regionalism in the Developing World - Working Paper Number 49</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 23, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper argues that regional public goods in developing countries are under-funded despite their potentially high rates of return compared to traditional country-focused investments. In Africa the under-funding of regional public goods is primarily a political and institutional challenge to be... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2876_image_cover_Financing_Development.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2876/">Financing Development: The Power of Regionalism</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 1, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The historic 2002 United Nations Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, overlooked a crucial question: regionalism. Financing Development: The Power of Regionalism is designed to correct this omission. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2741/">Double-Standards, Debt Treatment, and World Bank Country Classification: The Case of Nigeria - Working Paper Number 45</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 1, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Nigeria is currently classified by the World Bank as a ‘blend’ country, making it the poorest country in the world that does not have ‘IDA-only’ status. This paper uses the World Bank’s own IDA eligibility criteria to assess whether Nigeria has a case for reclassification. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2744/">Counting Chickens When They Hatch: Timing and the Effects of Aid on Growth - Working Paper 44</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 22, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Recent research offers differing assessments of the overall, worldwide effect of foreign aid on economic growth in the countries that receive aid. To understand these differences, we re-analyze the same data and same regressions used in the three most influential aid-growth studies. In all three,... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/12016/">Anarchy of Numbers data set</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 1, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> CGD working paper 32, "The Anarchy of Numbers: Aid, Development, and Cross-country Empirics" submits seven aid-growth studies to robustness testing and finds that most are fragile. The data used in the paper are in Excel (data set) and Stata formats (4-year and 5-year aggregates). Full results... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2747/">An Index of Donor Performance - Working Paper 42</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 22, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Commitment to Development Index of the Center for Global Development rates 21 rich countries on the “development-friendliness” of their policies. It is revised and updated annually. In the 2004 edition, the component on foreign assistance combines quantitative and qualitative measures of... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2748/">Is Africa’s Skepticism of Foreign Capital Justified? Evidence from East African Firm Survey Data - Working Paper 41</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 10, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The world has increasingly recognized that private capital has a vital role to play in economic development. African countries have moved to liberalize the investment environment, yet have not received much FDI. At least part of this poor performance is because of lingering skepticism toward... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2749/">The Trouble with the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success - Working Paper 40</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 1, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> *REVISED Version September 2004 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are unlikely to be met by 2015, even if huge increases in development assistance materialize. The rates of progress required by many of the goals are at the edges of or beyond historical precedent. Many countries making... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2750/">Aid Effectiveness and the Millennium Development Goals - Working Paper 39</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 15, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper focuses on key ways in which donors can improve the quality of foreign assistance and make it more effective in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2753/">The Road to Pro-Poor Growth: The Indonesian Experience in Regional Perspective - Working Paper 38</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 5, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> "Pro-poor growth" is the new mantra of the development community. This exploratory essay, commissioned by the Indonesia Project at Australian National University (ANU), places this new interest in pro-poor growth in regional perspective and then attempts to draw historical and policy lessons for... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2754/">The Long Walk to School: International Education Goals in Historical Perspective - Working Paper 37</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 16, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This work quantifies how long it has taken countries rich and poor to make the transition towards high enrollments and gender parity. It finds that many countries that have not raised enrollments fast enough to meet the Millennium Development Goals have in fact raised enrollments extraordinarily... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423426/">U.S. Foreign Assistance After September 11th: Testimony for the House Committee on International Relations</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 26, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> U.S. Foreign Assistance After September 11th Testimony for the House Committee on International Relations, February 26, 2004 </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2756/">The Illusion of Sustainability - Working Paper 35</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 22, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The history of foreign development assistance is one of movement away from addressing immediate needs to a focus on the underlying causes of poverty. A recent manifestation is the move towards "sustainability," which stresses community mobilization, education, and cost-recovery. This stands in... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2913_image_social_cover.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2913/">From Social Assistance to Social Development: Targeted Education Subsidies in Developing Countries</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 1, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The book compiles a vast amount of unpublished and published material on existing CTE programs and their impact on poverty. Groundbreaking case studies and detailed evaluations of programs in Mexico, Brazil, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Chile add up to an unusual and surprising success... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2760/">The Surprise Party: An Analysis of US ODA Flows to Africa - Working Paper 30</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 30, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Conventional wisdom about US foreign policy toward Africa contains two popular assumptions. First, Democrats are widely considered the party most inclined to care about Africa and the most willing to spend resources on assistance to the continent. Second, the end of the Cold War was widely thought... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2857/">Trading Up: Strengthening AGOA’s Development Potential</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 1, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This brief assesses the impact of AGOA to date and recommends measures to improve its development potential. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2914_image_otherwarDS.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2914/">The Other War: Global Poverty and the Millennium Challenge Account</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 1, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This book tackles head on the tension between foreign policy and development goals that chronically afflicts U.S. foreign assistance; the danger of being dismissed as one more instance of the United States going it alone instead of buttressing international cooperation; and the risk of exacerbating... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2920_image_challengingcover.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2920/">Challenging Foreign Aid: A Policymaker's Guide to the Millennium Challenge Account</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 1, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this study, Steven Radelet examines the MCA's potential promise and possible pitfalls. He offers a rigorous analysis of the MCA’s central challenge: making foreign aid more effective in supporting economic growth and poverty reduction in the poor countries. He systematically explores what... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2858/">From Promise to Performance: How Rich Countries Can Help Poor Countries Help Themselves</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 1, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 the nations of the world committed to join forces to meet a set of measurable targets for reducing world poverty, disease, illiteracy and other indicators of human misery—all by the year 2015. These targets, later named the Millennium Development... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423427/">The Millennium Challenge Account</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 6, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Testimony before the House International Relations Committee on The Millennium Challenge Account. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2764/">New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" - Working Paper 26</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 27, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Burnside and Dollar (2000) finding that aid raises growth in a good policy environment has had an important influence on policy and academic debates. We conduct a data gathering exercise that updates their data from 1970-93 to 1970-97, as well as filling in missing data for the original period... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2767/">The Millennium Challenge Account: How Much is Too Much, How Long is Long Enough? - Working Paper 23</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 23, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The US government's proposed $5 billion Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) could provide upwards of $250-$300m or more per year per country in new development assistance to a small number of poor countries judged to have relatively "good" policies and institutions. Could this assistance be too much... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2771/">Do Rich Countries Invest Less in Poor Countries than the Poor Countries Themselves? - Working Paper 19</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 19, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Global private capital flows have barely touched the poorest nations; the rich invest mostly with the rich. It is possible that failures in the global capital market prevent capital from exploiting high returns in poor countries; it is also possible that fundamental returns to investment are lower... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2773/">Policy Selectivity Foregone: Debt and Donor Behavior in Africa - Working Paper 17</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 30, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> We assess the dynamic behind the high net resource transfers of donors and creditors, IDA, bilaterals, IBRD, IMF and other multilateral creditors to the countries of sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Analyzing a panel of 37 recipient countries over the years 1978-98, we find that net... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2778/">Low Investment is Not the Constraint on <br>African Development - Working Paper 13</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 23, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> While many analysts decry the lack of sufficient investment in Africa, we find no evidence that private and public investment are productive, either in Africa as a whole (unless Botswana is included in the sample), or in the manufacturing sector in Tanzania. In this restricted sense, inadequate... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2779/">What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans - Working Paper 11</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 1, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> One feature of adjustment loans that has been often overlooked in their evaluation is their frequent repetition to the same country, with such extremes as the 30 IMF and World Bank adjustment loans to Argentina over 1980-99 or the 26 adjustment loans to Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. Repetition changes... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2780/">Solutions when the Solution is the Problem: Arraying<br> the Disarray in Development - Working Paper 10</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 1, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The welfare of the poor turns in large measure not only on technocratic development "policies", but the effective delivery of key public services, core elements of which require thousands of face-to-face discretionary transactions ("practices") by service providers. This paper presents eight... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2922_image_delivering_cover.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2922/">Delivering on Debt Relief: <br>From IMF Gold to a New Aid Architecture</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 10, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This study brings readers up to date on the complicated and controversial subject of debt relief for the poorest countries of the world. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2862/">Delivering on Debt Relief</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 1, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Over the last several years, the United States and other major donor countries have supported a historic initiative to write down the official debts of a group of heavily indebted poor countries, or HIPCs. Donor countries had two primary goals in supporting debt relief: to reduce countries' debt... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2786/">The Cartel of Good Intentions: Markets vs. Bureaucracy <br>in Foreign Aid - Working Paper 4</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 1, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The tragedy of foreign aid is not that it didn't work; it was never really tried. A group of well-meaning national and international bureaucracies dispensed foreign aid under conditions in which bureaucracy does not work well. The hostile environment under which such aid agencies functioned induced... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="tab-box research"> <ul> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/cdi">2011 Commitment to Development Index</a> <div class="item-description"><p>What Is the CDI? Rich and poor countries are linked in many ways--by foreign aid, commerce, migration, the environment, and military affairs. The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) rates 22 rich countries on how much they help poor countries build prosperity, good government, and security. Each...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/codaid">Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid</a> <div class="item-description"><p>COD Aid is a new approach to aid delivery under which donors pay for measurable progress on specific outcomes; for example, a country could receive $100 for each additional child who completes primary school and takes a test.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/assistance/mcamonitor">MCA Monitor</a> <div class="item-description"><p>The Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), an innovative U.S. foreign assistance program established in 2004 to complement existing programs, targets a select group of poor countries with demonstrated commitment to economic growth and development, emphasizes country ownership, and focuses on...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/pakistan">Pakistan: U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan</a> <div class="item-description"><p>CGD has convened the Study Group on a U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan to draw lessons from past experiences and offer practical recommendations to U.S. policymakers on the effective deployment of foreign assistance and, more broadly, other non-aid instruments for achieving sustainable...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/assistance">Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance</a> <div class="item-description"><p>Building on the success of CGD’s MCA Monitor, this initiative offers information, dialogue, and analysis on U.S. foreign assistance reform. It aims to help elevate development and U.S. foreign assistance as a critical national interest priority.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="tab-box opinions"> <ul> <li> <div class="item-title"><a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/2981/">How Wall Street can aid the poor of the world [Financial Times]</a></div> <div class="item-description">From the Financial Times</div> </li> <li> <div class="item-title"><a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/2977/">America's critics also favor their own firms: Iraq Contracts and 'Tied Aid' [International Herald Tribune]</a></div> <div class="item-description">From The Interntional Herald Tribune 01/13/2004</div> </li> <li> <div class="item-title"><a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/2974/">Will the Millennium Challenge Account Be Different? [Washington Quarterly]</a></div> <div class="item-description">From the Washington QuarterlySpring 2003</div> </li> <li> <div class="item-title"><a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/2930/">Now is the time for G-8 to pay up [Calgary Herald]</a></div> <div class="item-description">From the Calgary Herald</div> </li> <li> <div class="item-title"><a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/2927/">Spat over grants [Calgary Herald]</a></div> <div class="item-description">From the Calgary Herald</div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="tab-box multimedia"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425254_image_Alan_Gelb.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1425254/"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://blogs.cgdev.org/global_prosperity_wonkcast/2011/01/11/leapfrogging-technology-the-case-for-biometrics-alan-gelb/">Leapfrogging Technology, the Case for Biometrics: Alan Gelb</a></a> <span class="item-date">- Jun 27, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"><p>The Wonkcast is taking a brief summer vacation. We’ve selected this show from our archives- it was originally posted on January 11, 2011. In developed countries, official identification systems are a fact of life, providing the foundation for a myriad of transactions including elections,...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424909_image_Lant_Pritchett.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1424909/"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://blogs.cgdev.org/global_prosperity_wonkcast/2011/03/14/one-size-doesn%E2%80%99t-fit-all-lant-pritchett-on-mimicry-in-development/"> One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Lant Pritchett on Mimicry in Development</a></a> <span class="item-date">- Mar 14, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"><p>Development is easy, right? All poor countries have to do is mimic the things that work in rich countries and they’ll evolve into fully functional states. If only it were that simple. My guest this week is Lant Pritchett, a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development and chair of...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424505_image_Sauri_007_180x180.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1424505/"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://blogs.cgdev.org/global_prosperity_wonkcast/2010/10/12/evaluating-the-millennium-villages-michael-clemens-and-gabriel-demombynes/">Evaluating the Millennium Villages: Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes</a></a> <span class="item-date">- Oct 12, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"><p>In development, it's good to try new, innovative ideas-- but even better to know whether or not they work. My guests this week are Michael Clemens, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, and Gabriel Demombynes, a senior economist at the World Bank, based in Nairobi, Kenya. They have...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423985_image_barder1111.JPG&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1423985/"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://blogs.cgdev.org/global_prosperity_wonkcast/2010/03/22/following-the-money-owen-barder-on-why-aid-transparency-matters/">Following the Money: Owen Barder On Why Aid Transparency Matters</a></a> <span class="item-date">- Mar 22, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"><p>My guest this week is Owen Barder, a visiting fellow here at the Center for the Global Development and the director of the AidInfo project at Development Initiatives, a UK-based NGO. Owen's current work focuses on improving the transparency of the international aid system—making it easier to know...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423944_image_Ayah_170x170.JPG&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1423944/"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://blogs.cgdev.org/global_prosperity_wonkcast/2010/03/09/cash-on-delivery-aid-ayah-mahgoub-on-cod-in-education/">Cash on Delivery Aid: Ayah Mahgoub on COD in Education</a></a> <span class="item-date">- Mar 9, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"><p>I'm joined this week by Ayah Mahgoub, a program coordinator here at the Center for Global Development who works on issues related to the effectiveness of foreign aid. Along with Nancy Birdsall and Bill Savedoff, Ayah is working on designing a new form of development assistance called Cash on...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423901_image_kiiza_170.JPG&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1423901/"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://blogs.cgdev.org/global_prosperity_wonkcast/2010/03/01/getting-aid-right-in-northern-uganda-interview-with-julius-kiiza-of-makerere-university-kampala/">Getting Aid Right in Northern Uganda—Interview with Julius Kiiza</a> <span class="item-date">- Mar 1, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"><p>I'm joined on the Wonkcast this week by Julius Kiiza, a visiting fellow here at the Center for Global Development. Julius is an associate professor at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda and is spending time at CGD on a grant from the Canadian International Development Research Center. His...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423829_image_file_Birdsallfordist.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1423829/"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://blogs.cgdev.org/global_prosperity_wonkcast/2010/02/17/nancy-birdsall-on-cash-on-delivery-aid/">Nancy Birdsall on Cash on Delivery Aid</a></a> <span class="item-date">- Feb 17, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"><p>Can aid donors find a better way to deliver aid? My guest this week is Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development. Along with William Savedoff and Ayah Mahgoub, Nancy is working on a potential new way of disbursing foreign assistance called Cash on Delivery Aid. COD Aid seeks to...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1420910/">CGD Special Discussion with David Gergen on Obama's Global Development Policy (Event Video)</a> <span class="item-date">- Jan 17, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"><p>Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, editor-at-large at U.S. News & World Report, and a senior political analyst for CNN, David Gergen joined CGD president Nancy Birdsall, and CGD senior fellows who authored essays in our...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div>  </td> <td style="width:20px"></td> <td id="section-sidebar" valign="top">  <div id="sidebarNav"> <h3>Aid Effectiveness</h3> <div class="boxText"> <ul> </li> <li><a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/topics/aid_effectiveness/quoda" title="Quality of ODA (QuODA)">Quality of ODA (QuODA)</a> </li> <li><a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/topics/aid_effectiveness/defense_and_development" title="Defense and Development">Defense and Development</a> </li> <li><a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/topics/aid_effectiveness/innovations" title="Innovations in Aid">Innovations in Aid</a> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <h3>Related Initiatives</h3> <ul> <li> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/cdi">2011 Commitment to Development Index</a> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/codaid">Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid</a> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/assistance/mcamonitor">MCA Monitor</a> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/pakistan">Pakistan: U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan</a> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/assistance">Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance</a> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> <div style="float:right"><a class="more-link" href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives">More Initiatives</a></div> <div class="clear"></div> <h3> <div style="float:right"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://feeds.feedburner.com/cgdev/globaldevelopment/category/aid-effectiveness"><img src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/icon-rss-tiny.png" alt="RSS"/></a> </div> Recent Blog Posts <div class="clear"></div> </h3> <div class="recent-blog-posts"><ul> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/a-post-busan-results-agenda.php">A Post-Busan Results Agenda</a> <span class="blog-date">- Dec 15</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/brian-atwood-oecd-dac-chair-reflects-on-busan-progress.php">Brian Atwood (OECD-DAC Chair) Reflects on Busan Progress</a> <span class="blog-date">- Dec 8</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/aid-alert-china-officially-joins-the-donor-club-2.php">Aid Alert: China Officially Joins the Donor Club</a> <span class="blog-date">- Dec 5</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/how-the-open-government-partnership-may-have-contributed-to-busan.php">How the Open Government Partnership May Have Contributed to Busan</a> <span class="blog-date">- Dec 5</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/11/will-donors-hide-behind-china.php">Will Donors Hide behind China?</a> <span class="blog-date">- Nov 28</span> </li> </ul></div> <div style="float:right"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101052649/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/category/aid-effectiveness" class="more-link">More</a></div> <div class="clear"></div> <h3>Experts</h3> <div class="listitem"> <img style="float:left; 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padding-right:10px" src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/12989_file_subramanian_170.jpg&w=50&h=50&zc=1" alt="No photo available"/> <div style="padding-right:10px"> <div><a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/12989">Arvind Subramanian</a></div> <div>Senior Fellow</div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div class="listitem"> <img style="float:left; padding-right:10px" src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2713_file_moss_web_170.jpg&w=50&h=50&zc=1" alt="No photo available"/> <div style="padding-right:10px"> <div><a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2713">Todd Moss</a></div> <div>Vice President for Programs and Senior Fellow</div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div class="listitem"> <img style="float:left; padding-right:10px" src="/web/20120101052649im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/11584_file_wheeler_170.jpg&w=50&h=50&zc=1" alt="No photo available"/> <div style="padding-right:10px"> <div><a href="/web/20120101052649/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/11584">David Wheeler</a></div> <div>Senior Fellow</div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div class="listitem"> <img style="float:left; 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