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Views from the Center Blog Posts by CGD experts about pressing development policy issues and practical new ideas for reducing global poverty and inequality. Evaluation Agency Created by CGD Shares “Best in Aid” Award - Mar 19 Birdsall tells Congress Haiti Needs More than Aid—and More Flexibility from Congress Itself - Mar 19 A Development Perspective on China’s Currency – And a Fresh WTO Solution - Mar 19 A New CGD Initiative on U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan: What Is It and Will It Work? - Mar 18 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. Market Access for the Poor: Kimberly Ann Elliott on Trade Preference Reform - Mar 16 Cash on Delivery Aid: Ayah Mahgoub on COD in Education - Mar 9 Getting Aid Right in Northern Uganda—Interview with Julius Kiiza of Makerere University, Kampala - Mar 1 David Roodman on Microfinance and a Year of Blogging - Feb 23 More Posts
Global Health Policy Blog CGD experts discuss such issues as health financing, drug resistance, clinical trials, vaccine development, HIV/AIDS, and health-related foreign assistance. GlaxoSmithKline’s Evolving Business Model: For Profit and For Greater Good? - Mar 16 Community Programming, the Final Frontier: Going Where No World Bank Evaluation Has Gone Before - Mar 4 Death Toll from Haiti’s Earthquake in Perspective - Feb 19 FDA Goes Global: A New Approach to Food and Drug Import Safety - Feb 12 More Posts		Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Blog 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. OPIC Nomination Hearing: One Step Closer to a Private Sector Voice at Obama’s Development Table - Mar 17 Raj Shah Testifies: He Has the Responsibility; Needs More Authorities - Mar 9 MCC in FY2011: What It Needs, What It Wants to Do, and How It’s Going to Get There - Mar 5 Hillary Clinton Promotes FY11 International Affairs Budget in Congressional Testimony Marathon - Mar 2 More Posts
David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog Draft chapters, burning questions, useful sources. Weekly Tweets for 2010-03-19 - Mar 19 Weekly Tweets for 2010-03-19 - Mar 19 As a Matter of Policy, Put Policies to the Experimental Test - Mar 18 Cross-post: Truthiness and Justiness at the Haiti Debt Hearing - Mar 16 More Posts		Bretton Woods Non-Commission Blog CGD president Nancy Birdsall and invited experts float proposals for improving governance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Fixing World Bank Governance: Four Steps - Dec 4 Progress on The “Global Deal”: International Cooperation Works - May 7 IMF Governance Reform Committee Report Leaves Much to the Imagination - Apr 6 Why Don’t the Bretton Woods Sisters Offer Risk Insurance? (Could Governance Be Part of the Problem?) - Mar 20 More Posts

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