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New from CGD
July 03, 2012
Like you, I know that there are many ways to make a difference in the world. I believe that improving the policies and practices of the rich, powerful, and influential is one of the most powerful and effective ways to support poor people in their efforts to improve their lives.
At the Center fo...
New from CGD
February 07, 2012
At the second anniversary of the Haiti earthquake in January 2012, slow reconstruction and recovery efforts sparked soul-searching and debate in the development community. Why aren’t recovery efforts moving faster? Are international donors and NGOs helping or hurting recovery? Can traditional aid...
New from CGD
January 12, 2010
Trade ministers in Hong Kong just barely managed to meet the low expectations they set for themselves, according to Kimberly Elliott, a CGD/IIE joint fellow. "This means that the negotiations still have a chance to reach a meaningful agreement in 2006, but the pace and the willingness to make politi...
New from CGD
January 12, 2010
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This report card provides a simple overview of the extent to which countries in the world meet one of the five recommendations of Migrants Count: Five Steps Toward Better International Migration Data, the report of the Commission on International Migration Da...
New from CGD Press Release
May 22, 2009
WASHINGTON,D.C.(May 25, 2009)- Inadequate statistics on global migration are a serious obstacle to crafting policies that benefit migrants, the countries they leave and those they move to. Yet better data could be gathered easily and at low cost with a few clear steps, such as by adding a few questi...
New from CGD
January 19, 2009
Braving freezing temperatures and gusty winds, hundreds of development experts and members of the policy community packed a Washington hotel ballroom for a discussion with David Gergen on the outlook for global development policy under new U.S. president Barack Obama. Gergen, an advisor to four pres...
New from CGD
January 22, 2007
As trade ministers prepare to gather in Davos, Switzerland this week in an effort to restart stalled global trade talks, the Financial Times is reporting a potential breakthrough that involves major concessions by the U.S. and Europe. Kim Elliott, a senior fellow at CGD and the Peterson Institute fo...
New from CGD
September 18, 2006
CGD non-resident fellow Lant Pritchett argues in a new, bound-to-be-controversial book that increased labor mobility would do more for poor people in developing countries than aid, successful trade reform, and debt relief combined. Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Labor Mobility will ...
New from CGD
July 24, 2006
The totality of the collapse of WTO talks stunned even seasoned negotiators. "It is somewhere between intensive care and the crematorium," India's Trade and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said of the Doha Round. Kimberly Elliott, the author of a new book, Delivering on Doha: Farm Trade and the Poor, a...