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CGD in the News
March 30, 2015
A group of American researchers sat down to think of ways that Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique, which have major oil and gas finds, could avoid the rampant corruption, community conflict, violence and poverty commonly called the “resource curse” that has plagued so many resource-r...
CGD in the News
June 09, 2014
During the past two decades, something unexpected happened in the field of development economics. Researchers got out from behind their desks to figure out why, after billions of dollars had been spent on foreign aid, so many poor people were no less poor. They began talking with those they were try...
CGD in the News
May 16, 2014
Sandefur: “It’s not that anyone who was hungry the night before woke up with food in their belly or that people are any less poor in any real sense. It’s just categorized differently on paper.” [7:31]
Sandefur: “The global allocation of poverty looks very different wit...
CGD in the News
May 09, 2014
The new PPP numbers, based on 2011 data, include sharp upward revisions of the per capita incomes in big emerging economies such as China and India, making them statistically less poor than previously thought.
Economists at both the Washington-based Centre for Global Development and the Brookings ...