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November 04, 2010
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On October 30, 2006, Nancy Birdsall gave remarks to the Hilton Humanitarian Prize Symposium on Democracy and Development in New York City. Her speech entitled, Aid, State Formation and the Missing Middle, centers around the following questions: "What is the connection between political and human rig...
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Nancy Birdsall gave the closing remarks at the 2004 Conference of the World Bank's Operations and Evaluations Department. The conference focused on the effectiveness of the Bank's policies and reforms. Birdsall discussed her views on reforming donor activities in order to improve foreign aid to poor...
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Braving freezing temperatures and gusty winds, hundreds of development experts and members of the policy community packed a Washington hotel ballroom for a discussion with David Gergen on the outlook for global development policy under new U.S. president Barack Obama. Gergen, an advisor to four pres...
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Struggling to recover from years of brutal civil war, Liberia is saddled with $3.7 billion in inherited debt, about 30 times the country's annual export earnings. CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet and others from the Center have been advising Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and senior members...
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As leaders from the world's most powerful nations prepare to gather in St. Petersburg, Russia, this weekend, observers with even a modicum of memory could be forgiven for wondering whether the leaders suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder. After all, it was only one year ago that G-8 leaders met in...