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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...
CGD in the News
May 09, 2014
The new PPP numbers, based on 2011 data, include sharp upward revisions of the per capita incomes in big emerging economies such as China and India, making them statistically less poor than previously thought.
Economists at both the Washington-based Centre for Global Development and the Brookings ...
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 ...