David Roodman

1
Commitment to Development Index
David Roodman Research Fellow
2
Components

• Aid
• Trade
• Investment
• Migration
• Environment
• Security
• Technology

3
Aid

• Quantity, net of debt payments
• Tying
• Selectivity
• Project proliferation
• Tax breaks for charity

4
(No Transcript)
5
Trade

• Tariffs
• Quotas
• Farm subsidies
• Actual imports

6
(No Transcript)
7
Investment

• Political risk insurance
• Environment and labor screens
• Fighting international bribery
• Double taxation
• More

8
Investment Checklist

• Double Taxation
• Avoids double taxation?
• Lets investors enjoy developing country tax
  incentives?
• Other FDI
• Official assistance in resolving investment
  disputes?
• Help businesses identify investment
  opportunities?
• Help developing countries set up investment
  promotion agencies?
• Negative advocacy 
• Portfolio
• Official support for design of developing country
  securities institutions and regulations?
• No restrictions on pension fund investment in
  emerging markets?

• Political risk insurance
• Multilateral Insurance?
• Official national agency?
• Agency monitors environment/labor/human rights?
• Investors in all sectors eligible?
• No inappropriate national econ interest tests?
• Restrict extending coverage to inefficient
  import-substituting projects?
• International companies with a significant
  presence in this country eligible?
• Prevention of Bribery/Corrupt Practices
• OECD convention -- participation level?
• EITI Conference participation?
• Bribe Payers Index Score Quintile

9
(No Transcript)
10
Migration

• Immigration, especially unskilled
• Foreign students from developing countries
• Aid to refugees and asylum-seekers

11
(No Transcript)
12
Environment

• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Gas taxes
• Fishing subsidies
• Tropical timber imports
• More

13
(No Transcript)
14
Security

• personnel to U.N. peacekeeping
• Personnel to non-U.N.
• Arms exports
• Protecting sea lanes

15
(No Transcript)
16
Technology

• Public RD spending
• Tax breaks for RD
• Limiting intellectual property rights

17
(No Transcript)
18
(No Transcript)
19
(No Transcript)
20
(No Transcript)
21
www.cgdev.org/cdi
22
Overall