Initiatives
The Center considers itself a “think and do” tank, and thus has multiple initiatives to implement their policy suggestions. These, initiatives attempt to give specific policy recommendations to organizations while creating a dialogue.
In 2003, David Roodman created the Commitment to Development Index with Foreign Policy magazine and Mapping Worlds. The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) ranks and analyzes nations’ financial and political commitments to development every year. The index uses interactive graphs and analyzes how countries contribute to development in seven policy areas: aid (both quantity as a share of income and quality), trade, investment, migration, environment, security, and technology.
Other initiatives include the HIV/AIDS Monitor and Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid, MCA Monitor, Demographics and Development in the 21st century, Carbon Monitoring for Action, Closing the Evaluation Gap, Combatting Drug Resistance, Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers, Forest Monitoring for Action (Forma), Improving Migration Data, and U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan.
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