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CGD in the News
November 07, 2014
Currently, there is no universally accepted definition for energy access, but the International Energy Agency (IEA) measures modern energy access as 100 kilowatt hours (kWh) per person per year. As Todd Moss, senior fellow with the Center for Global Development, points out, the average American cons...
CGD in the News
October 31, 2014
“If Power Africa works, then it would deliver a huge boost for African countries,” Ben Leo, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington and a former White House director of Africa affairs, said in an e-mail. “Addressing the energy poverty challenge will take ...
CGD in the News
October 27, 2014
"When the Treasury Secretary goes to Africa, it’s about finance and private investment," says Todd Moss, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. "I would expect some kind of either energy or agriculture deal to be announced in Tanzania."
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"There will b...
CGD in the News
October 20, 2014
“If your neighbor’s bathtub was leaking, would you go help them fix the leak, or would you try to paint rubber walls or something? It would make no sense. And the way we are really going to contain Ebola is at the source…what we need now is a surge of health workers.”
CGD in the News
September 17, 2014
"I think the Ebola crisis highlights how some fragile countries that are close US allies are going to continue to need US assistance, but also that Americans’ lives that sometimes seem very far away from Africa; we’re much more intertwined with Africa than we think. It’s not only for bad reasons, a ...
CGD in the News
September 04, 2014
In the first week of August, official delegations from 50 African countries came to Washington to attend the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. The meeting was typical in its extraordinary pageantry, overzealous security, and relative lack of tangible accomplishments. [...]
Yet there was one outcome with ...
CGD in the News
August 06, 2014
“[Power Africa] was always designed as something that the administration could do without Congress,” said Todd Moss, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. It makes sense in the short term as a way to get it off the ground, Moss said.
“I think it was a long-term mista...