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New from CGD
December 21, 2012
CGD senior fellow David Roodman has won the inaugural Stata Journal Editors’ Prize for what the editors termed “two outstanding papers:” How to do xtabond2: An introduction to difference and system GMM in Stata and Fitting fully observed recursive mixed-process models with cmp. Each article desc...
New from CGD
July 10, 2006
As leaders from the world's most powerful nations prepare to gather in St. Petersburg, Russia, this weekend, observers with even a modicum of memory could be forgiven for wondering whether the leaders suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder. After all, it was only one year ago that G-8 leaders met in...
New from CGD
February 27, 2006
David Roodman, architect of CGD's Commitment to Development Index (CDI), and Scott Standley estimate in a new working paper that rich country tax incentives for private overseas charity nearly double private giving from rich countries to poorer ones, to about $15.5 billion. If these policies were a ...
New from CGD
February 06, 2006
Two new working papers examine problems with aid delivery. In An Aid-Institutions Paradox, Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, and Nicolas van de Walle show how aid can undermine institutional development, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Aid Project Proliferation and Absorptive Capacity, by David Ro...
New from CGD
December 12, 2005
Stakes are high as the world’s trade negotiators gather in Hong Kong this week. With the risk of a failed Doha Round of talks hanging over their heads, rich country representatives are seeking an agreement to open markets. Four new CGD publications help make sense of it all.
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New from CGD
September 06, 2005
Our Commitment to Development Index now features animated maps that show the strengths and weaknesses of the world's richest countries in seven areas of development policy. Join us for a Sept. 13 public discussion with index architect David Roodman and critiques from rich and developing...
New from CGD
August 25, 2005
Which rich countries do the most—and least—for development? The Commitment to Development Index shows that helping to fight poverty is about far more than giving money. The Index ranks 21 rich countries according to their policies in seven areas: aid, trade, investment, migration, security, environm...