Center for Global Development
CGD is an independent think tank that works to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community.
Additional Materials from Center for Global Development: Working Papers
Policy Briefs
Title: The Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Strategies to Expand Treatment to HIV-Positive South Africans: Scale Economies and Outreach Costs -
Authors: Gesine Meyer-Rath, Mead Over, Daniel J. Klein, Anna Bershteyn
Date: April 2015Title: Refocusing Gavi for Greater Impact
Authors: Sarah Dykstra, Amanda Glassman, Charles Kenny, Justin Sandefur
Date: February 2015Title: Refocusing Gavi for Greater Impact
Authors: Sarah Dykstra, Amanda Glassman, Charles Kenny, Justin Sandefur
Date: February 2015Title: Commitment to Development Index 2014
Authors: Petra Krylová, Owen Barder
Date: January 2015Title: Publishing Government Contracts: Addressing Concerns and Easing Implementation (Brief)
Authors: Charles Kenny
Date: November 2014Title: The Brazil-Norway Agreement with Performance-Based Payments for Forest Conservation: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, William Savedoff, Frances Seymour
Date: August 2014Title: The Quality of Official Development Assistance 2014
Authors: Nabil Hashmi, Nancy Birdsall, Homi Kharas
Date: July 2014Title: Delivering on a Data Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Amanda Glassman, Alex Ezeh
Date: July 2014Title: Time for FAO to Shift to a Higher Gear
Authors: Vijaya Ramachandran
Date: May 2014Title: Stopping Deforestation: What Works and What Doesn't
Authors: Jonah Busch, Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon
Date: May 2014Title: Results-Based Payments Reduce the Real Costs of Corruption in Foreign Aid
Authors: Charles Kenny, William Savedoff
Date: January 2014Title: Commitment to Development Index 2013
Authors: Owen Barder, Petra Krylová
Date: November 2013Title: Making Large-Scale Wind and Solar Power a Reality
Authors: Kevin Ummel
Date: October 2013Title: The Rebirth of Education: Why Schooling in Developing Countries Is Flailing; How the Developed World Is Complicit; and What to Do Next
Authors: Lant Pritchett
Date: September 2013Title: Revisiting the Quality of Agricultural Official Development Assistance
Authors: Edward Collins, Kimberly Ann Elliott
Date: September 2013Title: Making Large-Scale Wind and Solar Power a Reality
Authors: Kevin Ummel
Date: September 2013Title: Food Aid for the 21st Century: Saving More Money, Time, and Lives
Authors: Kimberly Ann Elliott William McKitterick
Date: June 2013Title: Time-Bound Labor Access to the United States: A Four-Way Win for the Middle Class, Low-Skill Workers, Border Security, and Migrants
Authors: Michael Clemens, Lant Pritchett
Date: April 2013Title: Restoring US Leadership on Trade and Development
Authors: Kimberly Ann Elliott
Date: March 2013Title: Innovating for Food Security and Smallholder Livelihoods
Authors: Kimberly Ann Elliott
Date: March 2013Title: Implementing a Results-Based Approach to Strengthen IDA Support for Fragile States
Authors: Alan Gelb
Date: March 2013Title: A Proposal for IDA-17: Instead of an Income Transfer, Direct the IFC to Invest Its Time, Resources, and Expertise in IDA Countries
Authors: Clay Lowery
Date: March 2013Title: US Spending in Haiti: The Need for Greater Transparency and Accountability
Authors: Vijaya Ramachandran, Julie Walz
Date: February 2013Title: The Need for More Local Procurement in Haiti
Authors: Julie Walz, Vijaya Ramachandran
Date: February 2013Title: Wanted: A Climate Agency for a Bottom-Up World—A Proposal for a New Arm of the World Bank
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, Lawrence MacDonald
Date: January 2013Title: Greenprint: Three Big Changes for Countries to Cooperate on Climate Change
Authors: Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
Date: January 2013Title: Commitment to Development Index 2012
Authors: David Roodman
Date: October 2012Title: Building a Biometric National ID: Lessons for Developing Countries from India's Universal ID Program
Authors: Alan Gelb, Julia Clark
Date: October 2012Title: Getting Better Value for Money in Malaria Control
Authors: Paul Wilson, Amanda Glassman
Date: July 2012Title: Priority-Setting in Health: Building Institutions for Smarter Public Spending
Authors: Amanda Glassman, Kalipso Chalkidou
Date: June 2012Title: Quantifying the Quality of Health Aid: Health QuODA
Authors: Amanda Glassman, Denizhan Duran
Date: May 2012Title: How Can the World Bank Group Improve Its Private Sector Projects in African Fragile States?
Authors: Benjamin Leo, Vijaya Ramachandran, Ross Thuotte
Date: April 2012Title: Global Health and the New Bottom Billion: How Funders Should Respond to Shifts in Global Poverty and Disease Burden
Authors: Amanda Glassman, Denizhan Duran, Andy Sumner
Date: January 2012Title: Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance
Authors: David Roodman
Date: January 2012Title: Where Is the Virtue in the Middle Class?
Authors: Charles Kenny
Date: November 2011Title: Measuring the Quality of Aid: QuODA Second Edition
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, Homi Kharas, Rita Perakis
Date: November 2011Title: Achieving an AIDS Transition: Preventing Infections to Sustain Treatment
Authors: Mead Over
Date: November 2011Title: Safer, Faster, Cheaper: Improving Clinical Trials and Regulatory Pathways to Fight Neglected Diseases
Authors: Thomas Bollyky, Amanda Glassman
Date: October 2011Title: Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery: U.S. Policy Options in the Case of Haiti
Authors: Michael Clemens, Tejaswi Velayudhan
Date: October 2011Title: World Bank (ABCs of the IFIs Brief)
Authors: Jenny Ottenhoff
Date: September 2011Title: The ABCs of the General Capital Increase (ABCs of IFIs Brief)
Authors: Todd Moss, Sarah Jane Staats, Julia Barmeier
Date: September 2011Title: Regional Development Banks (ABCs of the IFIs Brief)
Authors: Jenny Ottenhoff
Date: September 2011Title: Leadership Selection at the International Financial Institutions (ABCs of the IFIs Brief)
Authors: Jenny Ottenhoff
Date: September 2011Title: International Monetary Fund (ABCs of the IFIs Brief)
Authors: Jenny Ottenhoff
Date: September 2011Title: International Finance Corporation (ABCs of the IFIs Brief)
Authors: Jenny Ottenhoff
Date: September 2011Title: Affordable Interventions to Prevent Noncommunicable Diseases Worldwide
Authors: Amanda Glassman, Kate McQueston
Date: August 2011Title: Beyond Aid: Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery
Authors: Michael Clemens, Kaci Farrell
Date: June 2011Title: Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks' Direct Support to Private Firms
Authors: Guillermo Perry
Date: April 2011Title: Focus UNFPA: Four Recommendations for Action
Authors: Katie Stein
Date: April 2011Title: The New Bottom Billion: What If Most of the World's Poor Live in Middle-Income Countries?
Authors: Andy Sumner
Date: March 2011Title: The Challenge of Aid in Pakistan: Is Cash on Delivery Part of the Solution?
Authors: Wren Elhai
Date: March 2011Title: Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, Ayah Mahgoub, William D. Savedoff
Date: November 2010Title: Think Long Term: How Global AIDS Donors Can Strengthen the Health Workforce in Africa
Authors: Christina Droggitis, Nandini Oomman
Date: September 2010Title: Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way
Authors: Steven Radelet
Date: September 2010Title: Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health
Authors: Miriam Temin
Date: August 2010Title: The Race Against Drug Resistance
Authors: Rachel Nugent
Date: June 2010Title: Billions More for International Institutions? The ABCs of the General Capital Increases (GCI)
Authors: Todd Moss, Sarah Jane Staats
Date: June 2010Title: A New and Improved African Development Bank?
Authors: Todd Moss
Date: May 2010Title: Making Trade Preferences Work for the Poorest Countries
Authors: Kimberly Ann Elliott
Date: April 2010Title: Every Dollar Counts: How Global AIDS Donors Can Better Link Funding Decisions to Performance
Authors: Nandini Oomman, David Wendt, Christina Droggitis
Date: April 2010Title: Ever Dollar Counts: How Global AIDS Donors Can Better Link Funding Decisions to Performance
Authors: Nandini Oomman, David Wendt, Christina Droggitis
Date: April 2010Title: Commitment to Development Index 2009
Date: October 2009Title: Growing Pains in Latin America: An Economic Growth Framework as Applied to Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru
Authors: Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Date: September 2009Title: Going Beyond Gender as Usual: Why and How Global HIV/AIDS Donors Can Do More for Women and Girls
Authors: Christina Droggitis, Nandini Oomman, David Wendt
Date: August 2009Title: Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls
Authors: Rena Eichler, Ruth Levine
Date: May 2009Title: Africa's Private Sector: What's Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do About It
Authors: Vijaya Ramachandran, Alan Gelb, Manju Kedia Shah
Date: March 2009