Shower of Aid Brings Flood of Progress (New York Times)

The New York Times quotes CGD president Nancy Birdsall and research fellow Michael Clemens on the Millennium Villages.

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"Colleagues say Mr. Sachs, 55, has single-handedly done more for foreign aid than just about anybody in recent years. “We need Jeff,” said Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development, based in Washington. “His combination of passion and analytic acuity has been really important for development.”

“No one would dream of ‘scaling up’ the use of a new pharmaceutical in the U.S. without rigorous evidence comparing people who got the medicine to people who did not,” said Michael Clemens, a research fellow at the Center for Global Development. "

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