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These episodes are meant to capture the role of luck and privilege in my life, as an American during America’s near-hegemon years, and as a woman in a period of growing opportunities for women.
It’s been almost 10 years since I sat down for coffee with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in Davos. So it is a thrill for me that Ngozi is now joining CGD as a distinguished visiting fellow.
“Macro” issues naturally dominate the talk in these seminars and in the corridors. But not this time. I was surprised to find "micro” development issues suffused the agenda.
Here are five wishes for the Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa. Four are not new: I set them out in January here. One of them is new. (Can you guess which one?)
Despite the growing prominence of global challenges, such as climate change, cross-border health threats, security risks, and financial crises, most development-oriented funds are spent on individual programs in single countries.
When President Takehiko Nakao of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) visited CGD earlier last year, he described management’s groundbreaking proposal for a major restructuring of the bank’s financial model that we view as both sensible and creative.