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June 03, 2015
At first glance, winning the lottery seems like a momentous stroke of good fortune. Money is often what people — especially poor people — need to get back on their feet and make a new start. Unfortunately, it’s often the people who need the money most who, even with the best intent...
CGD in the News
March 16, 2015
In a new podcast with Mark Leon Goldberg at UN Dispatch, Todd Moss talks about, "how fiction can be a useful tool for examining real-world truths about how US foreign policy is made," and also discusses his "unique path from studying stock markets in West Africa to becoming a novelist...
CGD in the News
January 05, 2015
And when you think about it, "developing countries" are quite developed in some respects. In countries where government safety nets are practically nonexistent, people step forward to help out, says Mead Over, who studies the economics of health interventions at the Center for Global Devel...
CGD in the News
October 27, 2014
"When the Treasury Secretary goes to Africa, it’s about finance and private investment," says Todd Moss, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. "I would expect some kind of either energy or agriculture deal to be announced in Tanzania."
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"There will b...
CGD in the News
October 23, 2014
“The epidemic is moving faster than we economists can work,” said a blog last week by World Bank senior economist David Evans and Center for Global Development senior fellow Mead Over.
“The latest information suggests that even the World Bank’s ‘High Ebola’ scena...
CGD in the News
September 17, 2014
"I think the Ebola crisis highlights how some fragile countries that are close US allies are going to continue to need US assistance, but also that Americans’ lives that sometimes seem very far away from Africa; we’re much more intertwined with Africa than we think. It’s not only for bad reasons, a ...
CGD in the News
September 04, 2014
Mead Over of the Center for Global Development said food price inflation and unemployment will not hit everyone the same way.
For example, in rural areas, subsistence farmers grow their own foods for home consumption and are largely protected from the economic fallout. Over says traders will ...
CGD in the News
August 04, 2014
For many Americans, Africa is a continent far away, full of images like these: poverty, hunger, political refugees - and a need for foreign aid.
But former U.S. diplomat to Africa, Todd Moss, warns those are the pictures of the past.
"US now has greater national security interest in Africa th...