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CGD in the News
January 21, 2010
CGD researchers quickly responded to the earthquake in Haiti by offering their expertise on past, present, and future plans for humanitarian relief and development in Haiti. The media picked-up many ideas put forth by CGD researchers. Media outlets covering CGD experts include: The New York Times, U...
January 15, 2010
Ways to improve the wellbeing of girls and women in the developing world are expected to receive lots of attention at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York City this week. CGD vice president Ruth Levine offers an advance look at her forthcoming report, Start with a Girl: A New Agenda fo...
January 15, 2010
Current shortcomings in the system of demand forecasting for essential drugs, vaccines and diagnostics are constraining access to these products in developing countries, resulting in poor health and unnecessary deaths from disease like AIDS, TB and malaria. Ruth Levine, Director of Programs and Seni...
January 15, 2010
Remarkable increases in primary schooling over the past decade have brought gender equity to the education systems of many poor countries. But as CGD non-resident fellow Maureen Lewis and visiting fellow Marlaine Lockheed show in Inexcusable Absence, nearly three-quarters of the 60 million girls sti...
January 14, 2010
Each year, donors spend more than $30 billion and developing countries spend hundreds of billions more on programs to improve health, education and other social outcomes. But few programs are evaluated to learn whether they make a difference in people's lives. CGD's Evaluation Gap Working Group is i...
New from CGD
January 14, 2010
The earthquake in Haiti and the humanitarian relief response has drawn attention to one of the world's poorest countries located a mere 600 miles off the coast of the United States. Ruth Levine, CGD senior fellow and vice president for programs and operations, reflects on her experience working in H...
January 12, 2010
The central objective of the "What Works?" Working Group is to document a series of implementation experiences in international health that are judged to be successful using a high standard of evidence. The working group has closely examined possible international public health "success stories." Of...
New from CGD
January 12, 2010
"Resource tracking" is a hot new topic in global health circles. Far from being of interest only to accountants and statisticians, data on the flow of money – how much, from whom and for what – is the subject of intense debates within the donor community, the policy community in developing countries...