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April 09, 2024
It's spring in DC, which means it's time once again for the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings. Finance ministers, central bank governors, and other top officials from around the world gather to discuss the state of the world economy and the international financial architecture, and CGD's researchers ar...
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April 05, 2024
These links, the second since our makeover, are exceptional in another way: I’m writing them on a Wednesday evening, and they’ll be sent out some time on Friday by my brilliant colleagues in communications. I don’t normally write these ahead of time: they’re drafted directly into an email, with the ...
Blog Post
April 02, 2024
Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) published new guidance aiming to support government officials as they negotiate and implement international agreements on health worker mobility. In an era characterized as a “global scramble” for health workers, what does this guidance say and how can ...
Blog Post
March 28, 2024
Researchers who want to influence migration policy often struggle to communicate their research and see their findings translated into action. One potential reason is that many researchers ignore the outsized role of the public. Based on a new CGD Working Paper, this blog explores four key questions...
Blog Post
March 27, 2024
After an almost two-year lull, sub-Saharan African issuers are clawing their way back into international markets. In close succession, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, and Kenya issued $4.85 billion worth of Eurobonds in the first quarter of 2024. The bond offerings were as much as six times oversubscribed, in...
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March 22, 2024
Well, if everything works out, today should be the day you get the snazzy new links email in your inbox, complete with the Economics and Marginalia branding and the new (old) title. Let me know how you like it! On the plus side, I like the logo and the font, and it’s a starting point from which we m...
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March 15, 2024
This week, in lieu of further stories about my three-year-old’s eccentricity, I bring some exciting news: next week, the links are going to get a makeover. This has been in the works for a very long time. We first started talking about it more than a year ago, but with one thing or another, we haven...