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CGD in the News
June 12, 2006
CGD President Nancy Birdsall is quoted in this article by Reuters. The article followed a press phone call in which members of the CGD Evaluation Gap working group spoke to reporters from around the globe about the creation and importance of an independent evaluation organization.
June 05, 2006
Each year billions of dollars are spent on thousands of programs to improve health and education in the developing world but very few programs are rigorously evaluated to learn if they make a difference. A CGD proposal to fix this longstanding problem is gaining momentum.The final report of the CGD ...
May 30, 2006
The HIV/AIDS Monitor tracks the aid effectiveness of the three biggest financing mechanisms responding to the epidemic: the Global Fund, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the World Bank Africa MAP. Despite a common commitment to fighting the disease, each donor approac...
New from CGD
March 27, 2006
William Easterly, author of The White Man's Burden: Why The West's Efforts To Aid The Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good, has added his voice to the growing demand for independent evaluation of foreign aid. A professor at New York University and a CGD non-resident fellow, Easterly said in...
January 30, 2006
CGD President Nancy Birdsall begins four months of leave this week. She will be in Bologna, Italy, teaching a course on globalization, inequality and development at the Johns Hopkins SAIS campus there, and completing several writing projects. While she is away, Ruth Levine will be acting president a...
New from CGD
December 05, 2005
The G7 Finance Ministers announced plans this weekend to work with others on a pilot Advance Market Commitment for a vaccine in 2006. Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti recommended an approach based on a CGD working group report released in April. CGD President Nancy Birdsall welcomed the anno...
CGD in the News
November 28, 2005
Harvard Professor Michael Kremer, a non-resident fellow at CGD, makes the case for an advance market commitment for vaccines for developing countries in an interview in the current issue of Newsweek. Kremer is a co-author of the CGD report Making Markets for Vaccines: Ideas to Action.
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