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CGD in the News
December 18, 2014
From the start, Rajiv Shah was Obama’s man to lead U.S. foreign aid efforts, and Nancy Birdsall, founding president of the Center for Global Development underscored how the outgoing USAID chief was a “major force” behind President Barack Obama’s goal to eliminate global extre...
CGD in the News
September 17, 2014
Global issues increasingly dominate the development agenda, ranging from the challenges of climate change to fighting criminality and health epidemics like the recent Ebola outbreak to the increasing ability of international capital to evade national tax regimes, says Nancy Birdsall, president of th...
CGD in the News
September 05, 2014
The U.S. needs to play a greater role in the World Bank to improve its perception in developing markets, according to Nancy Birdsall, president of the Washington-based Center for Global Development.
Emerging-market economies are making a bid for greater influence on the global financial system, wit...
CGD in the News
July 18, 2014
A new report by top Washington think tanks finds no measurable advance in reducing waste and duplication in foreign aid programmes, nor any improvement in how aid was distributed in the years from 2008 through 2012, the most recent period for which data were available.
“On the one hand there ...
CGD in the News
June 13, 2014
Stumbles are part of Brazil’s awkward advance, asserts Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development and former executive vice president at the Inter-American Development Bank. “It’s hard to be a middle-income country that’s reaching” to be a first worl...
CGD in the News
June 12, 2014
You can get a very different picture of the world depending on which definition of middle class you use. A 2009 analysis by economist Martin Ravallion, then at the World Bank, now at Georgetown, found that between 1990 and 2002, 1.2 billion people in the developing world became middle class as defin...
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
March 28, 2014
This week, the US Congress again failed to approve a modest appropriation that would have shored up financing for the International Monetary Fund and given China and other emerging economies greater responsibility there. Support for the IMF may seem arcane, but it has important implications for Amer...
CGD in the News
March 24, 2014
But despite its detractors, conditional cash transfers quickly became the hot new approach in development.
One of the early champions of the approach was Nancy Birdsall, the president of the Center for Global Development who argued in 2004 that, '"these programs are as close as you can com...