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CGD in the News
October 29, 2014
“There’s no doubt [Jim Yong Kim] personally and the institution are highly visible [in the Ebola crisis],” says Scott Morris, the US Treasury’s former liaison with the bank. “But I don’t see hard evidence that this is a shift towards the World Bank becoming the Wo...
CGD in the News
July 24, 2014
"No doubt the BRICS will take a more flexible stance, certainly in their energy strategies, when it comes to fossil fuels," said Scott Morris, an expert on international financial institutions at the Center for Global Development.
And although that's exactly what people concerned abou...
CGD in the News
June 09, 2014
During the past two decades, something unexpected happened in the field of development economics. Researchers got out from behind their desks to figure out why, after billions of dollars had been spent on foreign aid, so many poor people were no less poor. They began talking with those they were try...
CGD in the News
May 16, 2014
Sandefur: “It’s not that anyone who was hungry the night before woke up with food in their belly or that people are any less poor in any real sense. It’s just categorized differently on paper.” [7:31]
Sandefur: “The global allocation of poverty looks very different wit...