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January 16, 2010
CGD President Nancy Birdsall delivered the 2005 Annual WIDER Lecture at the United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki last week. In Why Inequality Matters in a Globalizing World she argued that the world is not "flat" – contrary to New York Times colu...
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September 18, 2006
CGD non-resident fellow Lant Pritchett argues in a new, bound-to-be-controversial book that increased labor mobility would do more for poor people in developing countries than aid, successful trade reform, and debt relief combined. Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Labor Mobility will ...
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July 10, 2006
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...