Who designs the Commitment to Development Index (CDI)?
Until 2007 the CDI was maintained by the Center for Global Development and published in Foreign Policy magazine; however, starting with 2007 CGD became the sole responsible party for maintaining and publishing the index. CGD staff and outside collaborators designed and collected data for the seven individual components. David Roodman is manager and chief architect. He also designed the aid component and, in 2005, revised the trade component, building on the work of CGD Senior Fellow William Cline. The collaborators are Theodore Moran of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (investment), Kimberly Hamilton of the Migration Policy Institute and Jeanne Batalova (migration), B. Lindsay Lowell and Victoria Carro of Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration (also migration), Amy Cassara and Daniel Prager of the World Resources Institute (), Michael O’Hanlon and Adriana Lins de Albuquerque of the Brookings Institution (security), Jason Alderwick an
