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CGD in the News
September 17, 2014
Global issues increasingly dominate the development agenda, ranging from the challenges of climate change to fighting criminality and health epidemics like the recent Ebola outbreak to the increasing ability of international capital to evade national tax regimes, says Nancy Birdsall, president of th...
Mar
23
2010
5:00—6:15 PM
March 16, 2010
Donor countries have committed to major increases in development assistance but doubts remain over how effective this aid is. At this launch of their new book, authors Nancy Birdsall, William Savedoff, and Ayah Mahgoub present Cash on Delivery Aid, an approach that links aid directly to outcomes in...
February 17, 2010
By Nancy Birdsall, William D. Savedoff, and Ayah Mahgoub
A brief description of a new approach to foreign aid that would accelerate progress toward universal primary education by offering a contract to low-income countries which pays a specific amount for every additional child who completes primar...
January 16, 2010
Nancy Birdsall delivered the presentation "Rescuing the MDGs: Paying for results" at the Fighting World Poverty Conference held at New York University. The presentation explores the weaknesses of the current approach to achieving the Millennium Development Goals and introduces a new proposal for mee...
January 15, 2010
G-20 heads of state gathering in Washington this upcoming weekend to seek solutions to the global financial crisis should consider ways to strengthen the IMF and the World Bank, the international financial institutions set up after World War II,
to prevent a repeat of the Great Depression. CGD pres...
January 15, 2010
For the next U.S. president, effective development policy is not only the right thing to do, it will be crucial to the future well-being of the American people. A new CGD volume, The White House and the World, offers practical suggestions for a coherent U.S. strategy. CGD president Nancy Birdsall, ...
February 02, 2009
A new report issued last week in Davos by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on behalf of the Africa Progress Panel draws in part on CGD research to argue that Africa is both at risk from the global economic crisis and potentially an important part of the solution.
The report says that e...
Sep
18
2008
9:00—10:30 AM
September 16, 2008
Each day brings fresh evidence that Americans’ well-being is linked to the lives of others around the world as never before. Accelerating advances in technology and the creation of new knowledge offer undreamed-of opportunities. Yet global poverty, inequality, disease and the threat of rapid climate...