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
Media Queries
- H. Andrew Schwartz
- Chief Communications Officer
- 202.775.3242
- aschwartz@csis.org
- Paige Montfort
- Media Relations Manager, External Relations
- 202.775.3173
- pmontfort@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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Access to Finance for Smallholder Farmers
Commentary by Conor M. Savoy — December 7, 2022
The Role of Digital Management in Ukraine's Reconstruction
Event by Romina Bandura , Oleksndra Azarkhina , Oleksii Dorogan , and Maksym Nefyodov — December 6, 2022
The Importance of U.S. Congressional Support for Ukraine with Peter Roskam
Podcast Episode by Daniel F. Runde — November 30, 2022

Ukraine’s Winter Is Here
Podcast Episode by H. Andrew Schwartz and Daniel F. Runde — November 22, 2022

PADF: 60 Years Creating a Hemisphere of Opportunity, with Katie Taylor
Podcast Episode by Daniel F. Runde — November 16, 2022

Agriculture in Wartime: Threats and Opportunities for Ukraine with Farmer Kees Huizinga, Agricultural Economist Antonina Broyaka, and USAID DAA Mark Simakovsky
Event by Caitlin Welsh , Kees Huizinga , Mark Simakovsky , and Antonina Broyaka — November 15, 2022
Corruption and Private Sector Investment in Ukraine’s Reconstruction
Brief by Nick Fenton and Andrew Lohsen — November 8, 2022
Hong Kong Two Years Later with Olivia Enos
Podcast Episode by Daniel F. Runde — November 2, 2022

Bike Riding in Kabul: The Global Adventures of a Foreign Aid Practitioner with Jamie Bowman
Podcast Episode by Daniel F. Runde — October 26, 2022

Modernizing Ukraine’s Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
Report by Romina Bandura , Janina Staguhn , and Benjamin Jensen — October 20, 2022