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CGD in the News
March 28, 2014
This week, the US Congress again failed to approve a modest appropriation that would have shored up financing for the International Monetary Fund and given China and other emerging economies greater responsibility there. Support for the IMF may seem arcane, but it has important implications for Amer...
CGD in the News
February 12, 2014
From the article:
In our last piece, we had argued that taxation is the economic glue that binds citizens to the state in a necessary two-way relationship. A citizen's stake in exercising diminishes if he does not pay in a visible and direct way - typically via direct taxes or user fees -...
May
15
2013
12:30—2:00 PM
May 07, 2013
Should India, a lower-middle income country that has its own space program and yet is home to more than 400 million people who live on less than $1.25 a day, graduate from IDA, the World Bank’s concessional finance window for the world’s poorest countries? Ravi Kanbur will use this hotly debated que...
Feb
1
2013
12:30—2:00 PM
January 15, 2013
India’s prime minister says the Maoist conflict is the biggest internal security challenge in his country’s history. Does environmental degradation play role in the violence? Kishore Gawande and Devesh Kapur will present a paper that uses a novel data set on violent deaths and satellite ...
Jan
31
2013
9:45—11:15 AM
January 11, 2013
CGD fellows Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur will participate on this panel as part of the “20 Years of Transformation in South Asia” conference. The conference as a whole will examine developments within the region and in the role of South Asian states on the global scene. It will ma...
Sep
18
2012
12:00—1:30 PM
September 07, 2012
Surprisingly little is known about how Indias shift from a state-dominated to a market-driven economy is influencing the issue of caste. Kapur will present a new paper, co-authored with Lant Pritchett, that draws on a unique survey designed and implemented by Dalits (formerly called Untouchables)...