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CGD in the News
November 07, 2014
Currently, there is no universally accepted definition for energy access, but the International Energy Agency (IEA) measures modern energy access as 100 kilowatt hours (kWh) per person per year. As Todd Moss, senior fellow with the Center for Global Development, points out, the average American cons...
CGD in the News
October 31, 2014
“If Power Africa works, then it would deliver a huge boost for African countries,” Ben Leo, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington and a former White House director of Africa affairs, said in an e-mail. “Addressing the energy poverty challenge will take ...
CGD in the News
September 04, 2014
In the first week of August, official delegations from 50 African countries came to Washington to attend the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. The meeting was typical in its extraordinary pageantry, overzealous security, and relative lack of tangible accomplishments. [...]
Yet there was one outcome with ...
CGD in the News
August 06, 2014
“[Power Africa] was always designed as something that the administration could do without Congress,” said Todd Moss, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. It makes sense in the short term as a way to get it off the ground, Moss said.
“I think it was a long-term mista...
CGD in the News
August 04, 2014
For many Americans, Africa is a continent far away, full of images like these: poverty, hunger, political refugees - and a need for foreign aid.
But former U.S. diplomat to Africa, Todd Moss, warns those are the pictures of the past.
"US now has greater national security interest in Africa th...
CGD in the News
August 02, 2014
The WTO will not come crashing down tomorrow, says Kimberly Elliott, a trade analyst at the Center for Global Development think-tank in Washington.
But its future looks bleak if the Doha negotiations go back into the coma that has been their dominant state in recent years.
While many celebrate the...
CGD in the News
July 31, 2014
“I don’t know how many jobs [the WTO deal is] going to create, and I think the numbers are exaggerated. But I think that it’s critical that this agreement happens so that we have this system of international rules under the WTO,” says Kimberly Elliott, a senior fellow with th...
CGD in the News
July 31, 2014
President Barack Obama will host the first ever U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C., from Aug. 4 to 6. The event will showcase Africa’s impressive economic rise and the Obama administration’s policy initiatives as the U.S. plays catch-up with Europe, China and other parts of t...
CGD in the News
July 31, 2014
Africa is no longer the backwater of U.S. foreign policy. President Obama will host the first-ever African heads of state summit with 47 leaders in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 4-6. The top agenda items are security and private investment, areas where both Americans and Africans have growing shared inte...
CGD in the News
July 29, 2014
Read the article hereIndia is threatening to block the World Trade Organization (WTO)'s trade facilitation agreement (TFA) reached at Bali last year unless its agricultural policies are permanently excluded from multilateral scrutiny. Is the objective - on agriculture - valid? Are the tactics - ...