Center for Global Development (CGD) Updates

Executive summary At the ninth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC-9) in September 2024, China reaffirmed its position as Africa’s largest bilateral creditor. President Xi announced a resource...

by Karen Mathiasen and Nico Martinez The dramatic and unexpected cessation of US foreign aid could change the trajectory of development assistance for years to come. The sudden stop in funding is...

Rethinking Nutrition Financing for Greater Impact and Sustainability by Rosie Eldridge and Janeen Madan Keller March 04, 2025 Later this month, policymakers, international organizations, and global...

by Laura Chappell Sam Hughes and Ian Mitchell This brief is co-published with the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). The IPPR version is available here. Summary Following the recently...

DOWNLOAD THE DATA by Pete Baker, Katherine Klemperer, Sam Hughes, Janeen Madan Keller and Javier Guzman February 25, 2025 The Trump administration’s recent actions on foreign aid are dramatically...

by Charles Kenny February 19, 2025 Alongside the 90-day freeze of foreign assistance projects launched by the US administration, USAID has seen a number of contracts and grants terminated early...

Positioning MDBs for Planned Relocation of Climate-Vulnerable Communities by Steven Goldfinch and Sam Huckstep February 12, 2025 o to any informal settlement in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, or to the...

Download the data by Ian Mitchell and Sam Hughes February 11, 2025 While it is still unclear how long the current freeze on US foreign aid will last, and when and where it might resume, it seems the...

Key messages: • There was broad, cautiously optimistic support for the New Compact, with participants seeing potential in its key pillars, but doubting donor commitment. • Challenges in coordinating...

by Charles Kenny February 01, 2025 US assistance has been at the forefront of the global fight against famine and pestilence worldwide. The record clearly demonstrates that this fight is being won...

Steven Goldfinch Internal displacement—that is the forced movement of people within the country they live in—is at crisis levels. There were 46.9 million internal displacements, or movements,...

By Ian Mitchell and Sam Hughes In-donor refugee costs—the cost of supporting refugees and asylum seekers within the UK—now account for almost 30 percent of the UK’s entire foreign aid budget. In the...

young mother living in a rural area of a low-income country struggles to access basic health services for herself and her children. Her country’s high rate of HIV and AIDS has drawn the attention of...

Earlier in November, representatives from more than 100 countries attended the First Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence against Children. The event marked a significant milestone,...

By Eeshani Kandpal and Teresa Molina Safety nets play an important role in humanitarian crises. For instance, the demonstrated success of cash transfers in refugee communities reveal the benefits of...

By Amina Mendez Acosta and Biniam Bedasso As school meal programmes continue to expand globally, so too is the body of evidence from impact evaluations. Given the multiplicity of objectives and the...

By Koldo Echebarria This paper presents an overview of significant policy, financial, and operational challenges encountered by multilateral development banks (MDBs) in fragile and conflict-affected...

How Do Pakistani Parents’ Preferences Drive Investments in Their Girls? By Rossella Calvi, Hira Farooqi and Eeshani Kandpal The traditional economics model for human capital accumulation says that...

Kehinde Ajayi et Estelle Koussoubé, éditrices Messages clés L’Afrique détient la clé de sa prospérité : investir dans le potentiel économique inexploité des adolescentes. Pour réussir, les...

Kehinde Ajayi and Estelle Koussoubé, Editors Key Messages Africa holds the key to its own prosperity: investing in the untapped economic potential of adolescent girls. To succeed, adolescent girls...