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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
July 07, 2014
Since the term “data revolution” was brandished in the High-Level Panel report on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, there has been a flurry of activity to define, develop, and drive an agenda to transform the way development statistics are collected, used, and shared the world over. ...
Blog Post
June 23, 2014
If data wants to be free, then PovcalNet, the world’s leading dataset on global poverty, is happier today because it was recently made available for download in bulk by my guests on this week’s Wonkcast CGD research fellow Justin Sandefur and research assistant S...