Better Value in Health Spending Is a Four-Letter Word – Podcast with Amanda...
No one really understands why the first letter is lower case and the rest are in capitals. But one thing that is clear to anyone who has heard of iDSI is that it fills a growing gap in how developing...
View ArticleWhat Do We Mean By Results-Based Development? – Podcast with Raj Shah and...
It’s quite the buzz phrase: results-based development. But what is actually meant by "results"? Dr. Raj Shah, former Administrator of USAID under President Obama, and Michael Gerson, former...
View ArticleWe Can Stop the Spread of AIDS, and Sooner Than You Think – Podcast with Amb....
For global health workers focused on treating and preventing HIV/AIDS, the future is brighter than ever before.PEPFAR — the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, begun in 2004 by George W. Bush —...
View ArticleFighting Gender Inequality with the Power of the Keyboard – Podcast with Nick...
Nicholas Kristof, renowned journalist and columnist for the New York Times, is the winner of two Pulitzer prizes and, along with his wife Sheryl WuDunn, coauthor of the best-selling book Half the Sky....
View ArticleA New Strategy for the MCC – Podcast with Nancy Lee and Sarah Rose
A dozen years since it was set up with a remit to reduce global poverty through economic growth, the US government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation recently revealed a new Strategic Plan. Deputy CEO...
View ArticleWhat to Do about Migrants and Refugees? – Podcast with Michael Clemens
A tenuous ceasefire notwithstanding, the millions of Syrians displaced will not be returning home anytime soon. What CGD can do is to delve beneath the anti-migration rhetoric to examine the facts...
View ArticleHow Will We Measure the SDGs? – Podcast with Casey Dunning
If the SDGs answered the “what” question of the 2030 development agenda, the newly approved list of 230 indicators answers the “how.” But as CGD senior policy analyst Casey Dunning tells me on this...
View ArticleNo Trade-Off Between Financial Inclusion and Stability: What the G20 Need to...
While exciting new technologies for mobile money transfer deservedly make the headlines, there's a drier aspect of financial inclusion that doesn’t get as much attention: regulation. Liliana...
View ArticleMillions Saved: What Works in Global Health? – Podcast with Amanda Glassman
Millions Saved rigorously evaluates 22 programs from Haiti to Botswana, Peru to Pakistan, in order to understand what works in global health and why. Coauthor Amanda Glassman visits the CGD Podcast to...
View ArticleSix Questions for African Policymakers – Podcast with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Cared for by her grandmother in a village in Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is emphatic that her experiences as a child are what led her into a career in public service and development. “I lived some of...
View ArticleA Quarter of Aid Is Transparent – What About the Rest? Podcast with Rupert...
“Transparency has the potential to transform the effectiveness of aid spending,” said UNDP Administrator Helen Clark at a recent CGD event co-hosted with Publish What You Fund to launch its 2016 Aid...
View ArticleWho Should Lead the EBRD? – Podcast with the Presidential Candidates
It has operations in more than 30 countries worth around $9 billion. And now the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is searching for its next leader. Current president Sir Suma...
View Article"Emergency Development" Needed in Syrian Refugee Crisis – Podcast with UNDP’s...
With the World Humanitarian Summit looming, and in the absence of a unified global response to the Syrian refugee crisis, the head of the United Nations Development Programme Helen Clark says in a new...
View ArticleRefugees, Displacement and Development: What Should the World Do?
More people are in need and for longer. That’s the global humanitarian crisis in a nutshell. Some 60 million people are displaced, including 19.5 million refugees. The largest group is made up of...
View ArticleTobacco: Control or Eradicate? – Podcast with David Sweanor and Bill Savedoff
A billion premature deaths this century—that’s the estimated toll of smoking. As 80% of the world’s smokers live in low- to middle-income countries, that’s a huge problem for the developing world. So...
View ArticleClear Outcomes Are Key to Effective Humanitarian Work – Podcast with IRC's...
Not many development organizations can trace their roots to theoretical physics, but it was none other than Albert Einstein who suggested in 1933 that the European-based International Relief...
View Article“Google For Doctors”: How the G20 and World Bank Can Help Tackle Antibiotic...
The economist who coined the term "BRICS" thinks he has a hot investing tip. In this edition of the CGD podcast, Lord Jim O’Neill of Gatley, a minister in the UK Treasury, tells me that if it costs the...
View ArticleHow to Scale Innovation – Podcast with the Global Development Lab’s Ann Mei...
Ann Mei Chang wants to “turn development upside down.” That’s how she describes the aim of the Global Development Lab, the arm of USAID that she runs. The Global Development Lab is tasked with finding...
View ArticleBrexit Breakdown: What Now for Global Development? Podcast with Owen Barder
It’s been three weeks since the UK voted to leave the European Union in the move popularly known as Brexit, and the consequences are still becoming apparent. Senior fellow and director of CGD Europe...
View ArticlePopulism and Nationalism Are Threat to Global Cooperation – Podcast with...
Challenging global economic conditions, including a combination of low growth, a limited number of jobs, and rising inequality, are fueling the rise of nationalism and populism that are a threat to...
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