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Blog Post
June 09, 2023
Apparently, New York had the worst air quality in the world yesterday, which made me think of my childhood in Hong Kong, when there were days you had to chew before inhaling. As Alex Tabarrok points out, air pollution is really bad—for health, productivity and cognitive development, but it’s also tr...
Blog Post
June 05, 2023
Recent CGD events have shown several bright spots for the evidence-informed policy agenda, demonstrating leadership commitment to evidence generation and use. The new World Bank president, Ajay Banga, called for the institution to deepen its role as a knowledge bank in a recent speech at CGD. Newly ...
CGD NOTES
June 05, 2023
The World Bank’s lending function is important and irreplaceable. But providing countries with an important source of financing and investing in evidence do not have to be in tension. The role of evaluation should shift from an assessment function to one in which evaluation is a central tool of pro...
Blog Post
June 02, 2023
It’s the NBA Finals, a magical time of year when being woken up at 3am by an unhappy toddler can lead to 3 hours of ‘just five more minutes’ of a basketball game on an iPhone (thank you, League Pass). If I appear bleary-eyed in any meetings, blame the Nuggets. In years past, you could reliably boil ...
Blog Post
June 01, 2023
No longer the new kid on the block, Effective Altruism (EA) has evolved from its early days in the quadrangles of the University of Oxford to become a thriving community with a well-established architecture of philanthropic institutions. EA organisations now marshal resources in the hundreds of mill...
Blog Post
May 19, 2023
Many apologies for the unscheduled break in the Links last Friday. It’s long been a point of pride that, excepting planned holidays, I never miss a Friday. Last week’s sudden absence was—to the best of my recollection—the first since the 24th of June, 2016; as the votes were tallied that morning and...
POLICY PAPERS
May 19, 2023
Most non-DAC cooperation providers show openness to multi-partner engagement for development, but whether and how such openness can be transformed into more active cooperation—if not deeper collaboration—for development, including between DAC and non-DAC actors, remains to be seen.
Blog Post
May 19, 2023
In recent years, the international constituency for development has expanded beyond the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC). At a time when the global nature of development challenges requires utilizing diverse skills, knowledge, and ...
Blog Post
May 05, 2023
There’s something just perfectly British about having local elections just 48 hours before an obscenely wealthy 70-something puts on a hat made from plundered jewels, sits on an ancient bit of granite and becomes King. The local elections are just about as pure a form of democracy as possible, in wh...