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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...
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...