Justin Sandefur
Senior Fellow
2017 Commitment to Development Index
This year’s interactive Commitment to Development Index ranks 27 of the world’s richest countries on how well their policies promote global prosperity. Find out where your country ranks—and how it can do better.
UN Photo/Staton Winter
Partnership Schools for Liberia: Year One
Liberia is in the middle of an ambitious experiment to improve its schools through public-private partnerships. Find out how the project has fared so far, and how it might be improved.
NASA/Antti Lipponen
USAID on Disaster Reconstruction
As the Caribbean picks up the pieces after Hurricane Irma, Jeremy Konyndyk calls on Congress to provide USAID the leeway it needs to maximize recovery efforts.
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