Public-Private Partnerships

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Blog Post
CGD Podcast: Decarbonization, MDB Reform, and the Private Sector with Ahmed Saeed
Karen Mathiasen
and
Clemence Landers
November 30, 2023
Ahmed Saeed of Allied Climate Partners and formerly the Asian Development Bank joins CGD’s Karen Mathiasen and Clemence Landers for a conversation on his organization's new approach to blended finance, how to bridge the private and public sectors more effectively, and how to balance climate mitigati...
Blog Post
CGD Podcast: Accelerating MDB Reform with Stephanie von Friedeburg
Karen Mathiasen
and
Clemence Landers
July 27, 2023
Stephanie von Friedeburg of Citi and formerly the International Finance Corporation joins CGD’s Karen Mathiasen and Clemence Landers for a conversation on how to balance risk and impact in investment, why blended finance needs a rethink, and what mechanisms offer the most promising solutions to the ...
WORKING PAPERS
Beyond Short-term Learning Gains: The Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia after Three Years
Mauricio Romero
and
Justin Sandefur
December 16, 2019
After one year, outsourcing the management of ninety-three randomly-selected government primary schools in Liberia to eight private operators led to modest learning gains. In this paper, we revisit the program two years later. Despite facing similar contracts and settings, some providers produced un...
CGD NOTES
Harnessing the Power of Private Distribution Channels for UHC
Prashant Yadav
and
Amanda Glassman
December 12, 2019
New technology, better use of data, and entrepreneurial passion in improving distribution channels is reaching a critical mass with the potential to drive extraordinary improvements in availability, affordability, and quality of health products. Global health institutions can play a significant role...
BRIEFS
The Stretch Fund
Nancy Lee
and
Dan Preston
December 04, 2019
When the world adopted the SDGs, policymakers knew that aid alone would never meet the financing needs. They embraced the “billions to trillions” vision, believing that an abundance of commercially viable SDG-related investments was ready and waiting for trillions in profitable private i...
Blog Post
Introducing the "Stretch Fund"
Nancy Lee
and
Dan Preston
December 04, 2019
We need a new public-private actor to fill the gap in the development finance architechure. Nancy Lee and Dan Preson have a solution: The Stretch Fund.
Blog Post
Low-Cost Private Schools: What Have We Learned in the Five Years Since the DFID Rigorous Review
Maryam Akmal et al.
October 28, 2019
In 2014, the DFID released a “rigorous review” of the literature on private schools in developing countries. Five years on, there has been a slew of new studies. Do the conclusions still stand? We carried out a quick scan of the research published since 2014 and found that the recent evi...