Center for Sustainable Development

Osaka, Japan skyline at sunrise

City playbook for advancing the SDGs

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Debt service risks, Special Drawing Rights allocations, and development prospects

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Solidifying the DFC-USAID relationship

Eric Postel and Anthony F. Pipa

Friday, July 30, 2021

A woman wearing a mask as a preventive measure against the spread of covid-19 walks past a sign advertising UN's 'Sustainable development goals' in Ginza.The State of Emergency in Tokyo will last until end of June 2021. (Photo by Stanislav Kogiku / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Donor engagement with Agenda 2030: How government agencies encompass the Sustainable Development Goals

George Ingram and Helena Hlavaty

Thursday, July 29, 2021

Moving up: Promoting workers’ upward mobility using network analysis

Marcela Escobari, Ian Seyal, and Carlos Daboin Contreras

Monday, June 14, 2021

Daily wage laborers and homeless people wait in a queue to receive free food during a lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease in New Delhi. (Photo by Amarjeet Kumar Singh / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Extreme poverty in the time of COVID-19

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

A worker from a telecommunications company inspects a 5G technology device connected to an experimental 5G network, in Santiago, Chile March 22, 2021. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Bridging the global digital divide: A platform to advance digital development in low- and middle-income countries

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

San Luis Obispo, USA - April 19, 2020: people enjoy a warm spring day in the old town of San Luis opisto at the main historic Monterey street.

The new ‘rural’? The implications of OMB’s proposal to redefine nonmetro America

Anthony F. Pipa and Natalie Geismar

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Lima, Peru.- In the photos taken on November 20, 2020, it shows rural families, dedicated to different livestock activities in Lima, Peru. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), the informal employment rate at the national level increased from 73% in the first quarter of this year to 75.2% in the third quarter, thus reaching the value highest in more than eight years. Today, almost eight out of ten jobs are informal.

Debt distress and development distress: Twin crises of 2021

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Crisscrossing highways

How federal infrastructure investment can put America to work

Marcela Escobari, Dhruv Gandhi, and Sebastian Strauss

Wednesday, March 17, 2021