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CGD in the News
May 28, 2014
The World Bank, a famously bureaucratic institution, is undergoing its first restructuring in nearly two decades. The overhaul is intended to keep it relevant at a time when even the poorest countries can easily tap the global capital markets, but with just weeks to go, the process has turned into w...
CGD in the News
May 28, 2014
When the White House announced that the CIA would no longer use vaccination campaigns as cover for intelligence gathering, it came as good news for the renewed global fight to eradicate polio. The effort has been bogged down in Pakistan, where vaccination workers face assassination from the Taliban ...
CGD in the News
May 19, 2014
You have to feel a little sorry for the International Monetary Fund and its managing director, Christine Lagarde. Invited to give the commencement address at Smith College, an elite women’s college in Massachusetts, Lagarde canceled her appearance last week in the face of student protests call...
CGD in the News
May 12, 2014
The last few years have brought their share of tragic and miserable events: war in Syria, violence across central Africa, floods and tsunamis, and a global financial crisis. The U.S. has been spared major cataclysm, but the news hasn’t been particularly uplifting, given an anemic recovery, gro...
CGD in the News
May 06, 2014
Last week, the World Bank told us that China and India are actually much richer than we thought, because of new data comparing prices across countries. The details are a bit complicated, and our own Matt Yglesias has a great explanation here. The report didn't say anything explicitly about what ...