A former Turkish premier and ex-ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched a new party on Friday, saying it would stand against “cult of the leader” politics, AFP reported. Ahmet Davutoğlu, who served as prime minister between 2014 and 2016 and...
Randomized controlled trials aren't perfect, but a new generation of development economists is building on the work of the Nobel laureates and pushing the field…
SILINGA, Ghana – Economist Jeffrey Sachs unveiled his new Millennium Village on Tuesday in Silinga, in Ghana's north. The Millennium Villages Project started in 2005 based on the belief that poor villagers are stuck in a "poverty trap" and if given...
In December 2018, the UN General Assembly adopted two Global Compacts: The Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). These two compacts, w...
In this paper, Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes discuss how a new transparency is changing the debate about what works.
Michael ClemensAt the time, the Project trashed us personally. It said we were obstructing "the alleviation of suffering". cgdev.org/publication/ne…
All we wanted was transparent and independent social science, which is the right way to alleviate suffering. That has finally arrived.
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Michael ClemensIn 2011, @DFID_UK supported a new Millennium Village, in Ghana.
To its great credit—over the project's objections—DfID insisted on supporting an *independent* and rigorous impact evaluation.
That was just published: "Mostly small or null results".
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(2011). When does rigorous impact evaluation make a difference? The case of the Millennium Villages. Journal of Development Effectiveness: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 305-339.
As part of a new series looking how institutions are approaching impact evaluation, DI virtually sat down with Nick York, Head of Evaluation and Gail Marzetti, Deputy Head, Research and Evidence Division
The president’s action will define Judaism as a nationality, not just a religion, and empower the Education Department to withhold money from institutions that tolerate anti-Israel movements.
Shaun Ley speaks to the Nobel Prize winning economist Esther Duflo. The experimental trails she ran with two colleagues in Africa and India produced some sur...
Refugees and forced migrants can be immense economic contributors to the host communities where they settle. However, to maximize their contributions and achieve improved well-being and self-reliance, refugees and forced migrants need to be able to...
The procedures and norms that govern two of the most serious processes carried out by government—impeaching a President and reviewing a federal investigation—were shredded.
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz releases the report examining the origins of the FBI probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
A decade ago, giving money directly to those in poverty was seen as a radical idea. Today, that perception is shifting. But there are still unanswered questions about the effect of cash transfers when used at scale.
Bangladesh is hosting more than a million Rohingya refugees, and businesses have a critical role to play in improving the situation for them and their Bangladeshi host communities. We have identified four viable areas for business investment and...
International migration is one of the most pervasive social phenomena of our times. According to recent UN estimates, as of 2017, there were almost 260 million migrants around the world.