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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...
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June 03, 2011
The Latin-American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (CLAAF) will be launching their 24th statement on June 7th, 2011 at an event hosted by the Center for Global Development. CLAAF is a group of prestigious Latin-American economists with strong expertise in financial markets and other macroecono...
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April 04, 2011
Esther Duflo, who will deliver this year’s Sabot Lecture on April 11, is alleged by some French reviewers to be making development economics "chic." That’s no small feat, even for the recipient of the prestigious 2010 John Bates Clark Medal, awarded each year to the American economist less than 40 y...
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December 10, 2010
The International Development Association (IDA) is the World Bank’s arm that provides highly concessional loans and grants to the world’s poorest countries. IDA is one of the largest sources of assistance for these countries – of which, half are located in Sub-Saharan Africa. And, it is the single...
New from CGD Press Release
November 15, 2010
WASHINGTON,D.C.(November 15, 2010)--Publish What You Pay, a global civil society coalition dedicated to promoting revenue transparency in the oil, gas, and mining industries, is the 2010 winner of the Commitment to Development “Ideas to Action” Award, sponsored jointly by the Center for Global Devel...
New from CGD
June 21, 2010
Last week the Latin American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (CLAAF), chaired by CGD senior fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez, considered the impact of the European debt crisis on Latin America. The committee, which includes former top finance officials from the region, then released a statement con...
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June 14, 2010
As the Toronto G-20 Summit approaches, wealthy countries remain preoccupied with their slow economic recovery and the crisis spilling out of Greece. These important issues risk distracting leaders from the urgent problems of global poverty and inequality. In response to this concern, CGD recently h...
New from CGD Press Release
June 08, 2010
WASHINGTON,D.C.(June 8, 2010)-A new working paper released by the Center for Global Development (CGD) urges the World Bank’s two lending arms, the International Development Association (IDA) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), to rebalance their loans to low- and mi...
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February 09, 2010
CGD president Nancy Birdsall and Foreign Policy editor-in-chief Moisés Naím presented the 2009 Commitment to Development "Ideas in Action" Award to Diego Hidalgo Schnur, the founder of numerous organizations that promote development and democracy in Spain, Europe, and across the globe. Given annuall...