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CGD in the News
March 31, 2014
As tax season ramps up, we’re bound to hear proposals aimed at making the revenue system simpler and more efficient. A perennial is the “sin tax.” Rather than tax earnings—when we really want people to earn money—why not tax things we don’t want people to do? Add ...
CGD in the News
March 26, 2014
What are a list of things we’ve made progress in that people don’t always recognize?
If you look at life expectancy, it has shot up worldwide. If you look at child mortality, the number of kids that die before the age of five is going down in every country; it’s been halved worldw...
CGD in the News
March 24, 2014
The search for answers around the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 continues to generate an outsize amount of attention for an airplane tragedy—a subject that already commands a disproportionate level of public concern. This has been true for decades: A mid-1990s analysis of New York Times...
CGD in the News
March 18, 2014
As Washington wonders how to encourage democratic reform in North Korea, Burma, and Iran and how to shore up new democracies in the Middle East and Africa, it seems clear what not to do: invasion. On measures of civil and political rights, countries we have invaded (Afghanistan, Iraq) are ...
Blog Post
March 17, 2014
Our new analysis Hating on the Hurdle explores the MCC’s use of a hard hurdle for its control of corruption indicator and finds that this strict interpretation – a country must be above the median on the corruption indicator to be considered for eligibility – is...
CGD in the News
March 13, 2014
When Americans think about private education, what likely comes to mind are posh-sounding names like Milton or Collegiate, where the elites of Boston and Manhattan -- for the low, low price of $40,000 a year -- send their offspring to give them a small leg up in the race to Harvard or...
CGD in the News
March 10, 2014
Recent analysis by the Centers for Disease Control suggests America’s obesity epidemic may have peaked. From 2003 to 2012, overall obesity rates remained stable. Even better was a significant reduction in obesity for children between the ages of two and five. The rates dropped from 1...
MCC MONITOR ANALYSIS
March 10, 2014
The Millennium Challenge Corporation is a US agency that provides results-oriented assistance to low- and lower-middle income countries that exhibit strong performance on a number of measures of development. Among these measures is the Worldwide Governance Indicator for control of cor...
CGD in the News
March 03, 2014
The struggle over the future of Ukraine continues. Even as ousted President Viktor Yanukovych looks to Russia for assistance, interim President Olexander Turchynov pushes the other way—calling for closer ties with the European Union. The battle is over a lot more than economic issues, of cours...