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What’s holding back digital financial inclusion?
The Decision Tree framework offers a methodology adaptable to country-specific contexts that helps policymakers, researchers, and practitioners diagnose the “binding constraints” limiting access to and usage of digital payment services.
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đź“Ł Are you researching solutions to global lead poisoning?
Join @CGDev and @coeff_giving for a Q&A webinar on how to apply for up to $5 million in research funding.
Featuring @leecrawfurd, the session will walk through the new RfP and answer applicant questions.
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What’s the biggest barrier to digital financial inclusion in your country?
The Decision Tree for Digital Financial Inclusion: An Application to Digital Payments course helps participants identify the “binding constraint” holding back access to and use of digital payments.
Learn more and enroll ⤵️
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Last week @UChi_MSA launched the Atlas of Innovation with @IFP.
HOW innovation is funded matters. The Atlas helps policymakers, philanthropists, and development banks choose among grants, prizes, AMCs, and other mechanisms using a simple, research-backed framework.
Today’s blog post describes why we made the Atlas and how it works: marketshapingaccelerator.org…
IFP and MSA thank the Center for Incentive Design, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and @SijbrandijFdn for their support of this project.
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As official development assistance declines, what role can philanthropy realistically play?
Using @OECD data on $32 billion in philanthropic commitments, @biniegu examines where foundations are investing, which countries attract support, and what this reveals about the future of development finance.
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Childcare is increasingly being recognized as a driver of women’s economic empowerment, jobs, and inclusive growth. 🏫
Join CGD and the @WorldBankGroup for a discussion on how MDBs are scaling childcare investments and what challenges remain.
Featuring speakers from the World Bank, @ADB_HQ, @IFC_org, @the_IDB, and @EBRD.
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From math tutors to farmer advisory tools, generative AI is rapidly expanding across LMICs. But how should these tools be evaluated?
A new policy brief by @hanshengchia and Tim Ohlenburg introduces CGD’s Generative AI Evaluation Playbook, outlining four levels of evaluation and “Minimum Viable Evaluations” for GenAI tools.
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What did we learn at CGD’s first annual Women in Leadership Conference?
Women are entering international financial institutions in roughly equal numbers to men, but leadership gaps persist. @eeshani and Kelsey Harris examine the structural barriers shaping advancement.
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What could the economic fallout of the Middle East war mean for low- and middle-income countries?
Join @elerianm and @JudyWoodruff for a timely conversation on the global outlook, mounting economic pressures, and what policymakers should be watching in the months ahead.
đź“… Thursday, June 18
⏰ 9:30 AM ET | 2:30 PM BST
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How should development organizations evaluate generative AI tools?
Tim Ohlenburg and Rikin Gandhi argue that evaluation must go beyond model performance to include user engagement, behavior change, and real-world outcomes.
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As development finance tightens, the World Bank is expanding its use of guarantees to help countries lower borrowing costs and attract private financing.
@karen_mathiasen and Nico Martinez examine the Bank’s new guarantee framework and what it could mean for development finance.
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Student learning increased by 16% when school-specific recommendations were sent directly to local education monitors via text message.
@JacobusCilliers and James Habyarimana examine what this low-cost fix can teach us about improving government programs at scale.
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Investing in #Childcare at the Multilateral Development Banks: Progress, Lessons, and the Road Ahead @the_IDB @ADB_HQ @EBRD @IFC_org @CGDev cgdev.org/event/investing-ch…
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An estimated 115 million children worldwide experience violence in and around schools.
On the latest CGD Podcast, @DaveEvansPhD, Dipak Naker, Co-Founder and Executive Director of @forGoodSchools, and @Gabriela_LSC discuss what the data shows about school violence, what's still missing, and the strategies helping to prevent violence in and around schools.
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The same improvement in reading skills can look dramatically different depending on how learning is measured.
@DaveEvansPhD, @jrossiter0, @susannahhares, and Catherine Henny examine why the statistics commonly used to compare education programs can create a misleading sense of comparability—and why reporting raw learning outcomes matters.
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Our new board chair @elerianm is talking about the impact of the Iran war on LMICs on June 18 @CGDev in conversation with Judy Woodruff. Join us!
What could the economic fallout of the Middle East war mean for low- and middle-income countries?
Join @elerianm, Board Chair-Elect at @CGDev, and @JudyWoodruff for a timely conversation on the global outlook, mounting economic risks, and how governments can build resilience amid growing uncertainty.
go.cgdev.org/4uLv4pj
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What could the economic fallout of the Middle East war mean for low- and middle-income countries?
Join @elerianm, Board Chair-Elect at @CGDev, and @JudyWoodruff for a timely conversation on the global outlook, mounting economic risks, and how governments can build resilience amid growing uncertainty.
go.cgdev.org/4uLv4pj
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Neonatal sepsis kills 700,000 newborns every year — one baby every 45 seconds.
A joint @cgdev and @UChi_MSA working group is launching an advance market commitment to spur the development of affordable, accurate rapid diagnostic tests for neonatal sepsis.
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Center for Global Development retweeted
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I spoke with Dipak Naker (of the Coalition @forGoodSchools) and @Gabriela_LSC (of @CGDev) about evidence and practice on making schools a safe space for every child to flourish.
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I recommend a listen!
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📢 New funding opportunity: Up to $5 million available for research on global lead poisoning.
CGD and @coeff_giving are seeking proposals that can help answer critical questions on lead exposure, source identification, battery recycling, policy effectiveness, and more.
Expressions of interest due August 2, 2026.
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