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Blog Post
October 16, 2014
This morning (Thursday) came the news that Arvind Subramanian, a joint fellow at CGD and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, is being appointed Chief Economic Advisor to the government of India. This appointment (for our American readers), is more or less equivalent to being the h...
Blog Post
September 30, 2014
By and large, citizens of wealthier countries have more access to financial services than citizens of poorer countries. In the Republic of the Congo, for instance, only 9 percent of adults have access to formal financial institutions. In high-income countries, that share is 90 percent, according to ...
Blog Post
July 29, 2014
For the past decade or more, Nancy Birdsall, Michael Clemens, Amanda Glassman, Nora Lustig, Guillermo Perry, and I (among other CGD colleagues) have been researching the development challenges facing Latin America and crafting policy proposals for policymakers in the region and beyond.
Blog Post
June 16, 2014
My guest on this Wonkcast is CGD senior fellow Liliana Rojas Suarez, who serves as chair of the Latin American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (CLAAF). CLAAF is comprised of financial economists and former senior financial officials from the region who meet twice a year to study a current poli...