The Senate’s Ideas for MCC: All Good in Theory, One Questionable in Practice
The FY17 State and Foreign Operations spending bill brought good news for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) with big implications for its operations. New authority to engage in concurrent...
View ArticleSenate Panel Sets Sights on Economic Impact of US Aid
With election-year events crowding out the legislative calendar, there’s only so many more opportunities for the Senate to show its commitment to development and its interest in improving US...
View ArticleCongress Did Something! For Developing Countries!!
The clock is ticking on the 114th Congress, and as we inch closer to November 8, the odds of meaningful legislative action seem likely to dwindle further. It is heartening, then, that the House of...
View ArticleMaking the Most of the White House Global Development Summit
White House summits, which in recent years have addressed everything from African American LGBTQ Youth to Working Families, serve two main purposes: to make progress on a set of policy issues and to...
View ArticleSenate Committee Examines US Economic Assistance, Asks How to Get It Right
RelatedBlog: Rethinking US Development PolicyAuthor(s): Sarath GanjiErin Collinson
View ArticleBuilding on the Momentum: Focusing on Adolescent Girls through MCC Country...
In CGD’s last blog post on the new strategy, we commended the US government for leading the charge for adolescent girls—by issuing the first-ever country strategy specifically focused on the...
View ArticleCash on Delivery Aid Gets Shout-Out in FY17 Funding Bill
Congress has officially departed Washington for the summer, leaving behind a lengthy to-do list for September. In the final weeks of session, both chambers clamored to advance spending bills for the...
View ArticleParty Foul? The Democrat and Republican Party Platforms on Global Development
Even in this most partisan of times, development policy has been an area with a semblance of bipartisan agreement—and even progress. But party platforms are partisan true-believer documents and not...
View ArticleWhat Was Missing from the White House Global Development Summit
Yesterday at the White House Summit on Global Development, as President Obama outlined the programmatic successes of his administration’s global development policy (all genuine and worthy of acclaim),...
View ArticleMy Three Takeaways on the White House Summit on Global Development
As President Obama joked earlier this week, the White House Summit on Global Development assembled “a lot of do-gooders in one room.” It was a daylong celebration of the Administration’s achievements...
View ArticleSix Ways the Next US President Can Do Better on Global Health
The next US president will face ongoing and emerging global health crises. The next administration must work to transform the US approach to global health and global health security to protect the...
View ArticleOpen Letter: A Call for Development Ideas to Address U.S. Challenges
Cindy Huang asks for ways to apply international development expertise to social, political, and economic dilemmas in the United States.Blog: Rethinking US Development PolicyAuthor(s): Cindy Huang
View ArticleWhen Rules Are Wrong: Time to Rethink How MCC Identifies Partner Countries
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has officially kicked off its FY2017 “selection cycle” with last week’s release of the “Candidate Country Report.” Normally this is a pretty pro forma step...
View ArticleEncouraging Signs that OPIC is Stepping Up in Poorer Countries
With the release of OPIC’s 2015 annual report, we have now updated CGD’s OPIC Scraped Portfolio database with detailed information on 90 new project commitments. So what does the rundown look like?...
View ArticleThe Senate Tackles Corruption in US Foreign Assistance
Maryland Senator Ben Cardin recently introduced legislation to establish a tiered system of countries with respect to levels of corruption by their governments and their efforts to combat such...
View ArticleCongress Wants to Extend Global Internet Access: Perhaps It Could Put Some...
Congressman Ed Royce, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, along with a bipartisan list of cosponsors, is proposing the Digital GAP Act, designed to promote Internet access in developing...
View ArticleA Little Bit of CGD at USAID
This week, CGD took another step forward in putting the “do” in our mission of being a “think and do tank.” For a number of years, we have hosted policymakers as visiting fellows at the center, a great...
View ArticleDespite the Rhetoric, US Foreign Assistance Still Not Transparent
On January 12, 2010, Haiti experienced a 7.0M earthquake, killing over 200,000 people and making several million homeless. In the years that followed, the US committed over $3 billion in taxpayer funds...
View ArticleFive Years In, Still More Questions than Answers about Feed the Future
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is celebrating one of its signature initiatives, Feed the Future (FTF), this week. Five years in, however, we still don’t know very much about how...
View ArticleUS Multilateral Leadership in an AIIB Era
At the moment, the issue of US leadership at the multilateral development banks (MDBs) is focused squarely on the World Bank presidency. But there’s a lot more to it than that, and a lot more at risk...
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