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January 16, 2010
CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet prepared this response to questions raised by U.S. Sen. Richard Richard Lugar during a June 12, 2007 hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Development, Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs, and International Environmental Protection. Ra...
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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...
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June 10, 2008
Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA), Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) spoke at the launch Tuesday on Capitol Hill of a new proposal calling for what amounts to a complete makeover of U.S. foreign assistance. New Day, New Way: U.S. Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century...
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May 21, 2007
The Center for Global Development is excited to announce the six Scott Family Liberia Fellows for 2007-2008. The six fellows were selected from 230 applicants and will serve as special assistants to senior Liberian government officials. CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet, who leads the Center’s work in...
New from CGD
April 16, 2007
Struggling to recover from years of brutal civil war, Liberia is saddled with $3.7 billion in inherited debt, about 30 times the country's annual export earnings. CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet and others from the Center have been advising Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and senior members...
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February 12, 2007
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf described the achievements of her year-old government in recovering from a prolonged civil war and called upon the U.S. and other Liberian partners to drop the debt inherited from past governments, continue security assistance, and step up development assista...
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September 11, 2006
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) currently uses 16 indicators of governance and policy performance to determine a country's eligibility for Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) finance. The MCC is proposing several changes to its selection process this year. While most of these changes are m...
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July 31, 2006
The head of the International Monetary Fund said he will propose giving developing countries a greater say in how the IMF is run. IMF managing director Rodrigo de Rato said that he would put forward the proposals to increase developing country representation on the Fund’s board ahead of the Annual M...
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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...