Project on Prosperity and Development
The Project on Prosperity and Development (PPD) highlights the central role of private, multilateral, and other non-governmental actors in development
The Project on Prosperity and Development (PPD) studies the coming challenges in international development, focusing on the rapidly shifting financial and economic landscape in low and middle-income countries. PPD seeks to identify international development policy and approaches that government, civil society, and private sector actors can utilize to foster broad-based, inclusive economic growth. PPD’s work merges traditional development theory and practice with the innovative approaches of private actors, and influences the development debate and donor resource allocation through CSIS’s unique convening power in Washington and around the world.
Areas of Focus
PPD seeks to influence private actors in the international community and shape executive and legislative policy on development. PPD currently works within several priority areas:
- Governance, rule of law, and domestic resource mobilization
- Private sector, economic, and rural development
- Development finance, trade, foreign investment, and the role of multilateral institutions
- Technology and innovation
- Root causes of instability, humanitarian assistance, and post-conflict recovery
- Strategic uses of US foreign assistance
Contact Information
Media Queries
- H. Andrew Schwartz
- Chief Communications Officer
- 202.775.3242
- aschwartz@csis.org
- Samuel Cestari
- Media Relations Coordinator, External Relations
- 202.775.7317
- scestari@csis.org
The CSIS Ukraine Economic Reconstruction Commission focuses on the critical role of private sector investment in Ukraine's reconstruction
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Book Event - We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy & the New Cold War
Event — April 15, 2024
“The Waterfall’s Shadow in the Mekong Region”: Audio Brief with Ben Jensen
Podcast Episode by Benjamin Jensen — September 29, 2023
The Importance of "Cross-Cultural" Sensitivity with Jessica Stone
Podcast Episode by Daniel F. Runde — September 7, 2023
Elevating the Role of Critical Minerals for Development and Security
Report by Daniel F. Runde and Austin Hardman — September 1, 2023
US-China Competition through Higher Education with Dr. William Kirby
Podcast Episode by Daniel F. Runde — June 29, 2023
The United States Development Approach in an Age of Great Power Competition: A Conversation with Former USAID Administrators
Event — May 8, 2023
Debt Transparency in Developing Countries
Event — April 28, 2023
The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power by Daniel F. Runde
Podcast Episode by Daniel F. Runde — February 7, 2023
Hong Kong Two Years Later with Olivia Enos
Podcast Episode by Daniel F. Runde — November 2, 2022
2022 Global Development Forum
Event — October 13, 2022