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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 21, 2014
Nancy Birdsall, founding president of the Centre for Global Development think tank in Washington DC, called the book "deeply radical and thought-provoking, and brilliantly entertaining". She writes: "Development insiders will, with some justification, complain about one-side...
CGD in the News
March 18, 2014
From the interview:
Inequality is a moral problem, but more than that, it causes inefficiency in the economy. How can we fight these inequalities? Nancy Birdsall, global pioneer in the new fight against poverty, responds.
De la entrevista:
La desigualdad es un problema moral, pe...
CGD in the News
March 13, 2014
"The IMF is coming kind of late to the party in terms of worrying about inequality and what can be done about it," said Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development. "But they are a big player, so we're glad they came to the party."
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Birdsall said t...