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Blog Post
May 21, 2010
This is a joint post with William Savedoff and Ayah Mahgoub.
Shout-out to Duncan Green and Oxfam for commenting on our new book and calling, like Nicholas Kristof, for pilots of COD Aid. Best of all, Duncan noted (as have several others such as Owen Barder in this note among others) that man...
Blog Post
May 14, 2010
This is a joint post with William Savedoff and Ayah Mahgoub.
Lawrence Haddad is the Director of the Institute for Development Studies at The University of Sussex in the UK. In a recent blog post, he poses several challenges for the new UK government on development.
Here’s my take on h...
Blog Post
May 14, 2010
This is a joint post with William Savedoff.
Policymakers, researchers, and development experts gathered at CGD on May 4 to discuss the implications of existing research on conditional cash transfers (CCTs) and recommend ways for the development community to improve impact evaluations of intervent...
Blog Post
May 12, 2010
This posting is joint with Julia Barmeier
According to its website, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has stopped accepting nominations for its UNESCO-Obiang Nguema Mbasogo International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences. But we are guessing that ...
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May 11, 2010
This is a joint posting with Sarah Jane Staats and also appeared on Global Post and Huffington Post.
In insider Washington there is a battle going on over who will control U.S. global development strategy. The gossip is that it is a White House-State Department fight compounded by a low-level...