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CGD Policy Blogs

Views from the Center Posts by CGD experts about pressing development policy issues and practical new ideas for reducing global poverty and inequality. Finance Lessons from Emerging Markets for Europe and the United States - May 23 CGD Non-Resident Fellow, Devesh Kapur, Wins Book Award - May 23 EBRD Raises the Bar for International Appointments - May 21 From Zoellick to Kim: Three Seedlings to Nourish - May 17 More Posts		Global Prosperity Wonkcast Lawrence MacDonald, CGD vice president for communications and policy outreach, interviews a CGD expert in this weekly Podcast. The blog offers a short text summary. The Climate Change Vulnerability Index — David Wheeler - May 21 Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone? – Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie Walz - May 15 Leapfrogging Technology, the Case for Biometrics: Alan Gelb - May 8 Latin American Lessons from the 2008 Financial Crisis – Liliana Rojas-Suarez - May 1 More Posts
Global Health Policy CGD experts discuss such issues as health financing, drug resistance, clinical trials, vaccine development, HIV/AIDS, and health-related foreign assistance. What Indicators Reveal about Interest in Global Health: the World Health Statistics Report - May 21 West Africa: The Demographic Dividend Is Not a Given - May 15 The Health Aid Fungibility Debate: Don’t Believe Either Side - May 14 Results-Based Aid in Liberia: USAID Forward (and one step back) - May 11 More Posts		Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance The Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Blog complements CGD's Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance initiative. Both are for professionals interested in tracking the U.S. Foreign Assistance and its impact on developing countries. Obama Updates Development Profile: Ag and Private Sector Now Friends - May 21 A Fresh Look at CGD’s Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Initiative: Your Ideas Wanted - May 16 How Aid Dependent Is the Man in the Moon? - May 15 Getting Greater Value from Post-Quake Aid to Haiti - May 14 More Posts
David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog Draft chapters, burning questions, useful sources. Which Studies Should Someone Be Paid to Reexamine? - May 23 Nonsense about Randomness - May 21 Weekly Tweets for 2012-05-18 - May 18 Eminence & Evidence - May 16 More Posts