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July 22, 2008
Edward W. Scott Jr., the founding chairman of the Board of the Center for Global Development, recently visited Liberia together with members of his family and a group that included CGD board member Belinda Stronach. It was Scott’s first visit but far from his first involvement with Liberia. In 2006,...
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June 10, 2008
Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA), Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) spoke at the launch Tuesday on Capitol Hill of a new proposal calling for what amounts to a complete makeover of U.S. foreign assistance. New Day, New Way: U.S. Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century...
April 28, 2008
CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet and president Nancy Birdsall urged the modernization of U.S. foreign assistance in congressional testimony last week. Radelet testified on Wednesday at the first in a series of foreign assistance hearings chaired by new House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard ...
April 07, 2008
CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet provides an update on Liberia's recovery from civil war and progress towards debt relief in advance of a CGD speech on Friday by Liberian minister of finance Antoinette Sayeh. Want to assist in Liberia's reconstruction? Consider applying to become a Liberia Fellow, on...
July 09, 2007
CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet has called for deep structural reform of U.S. foreign aid programs in testimony before the Senate and House subcommittees. Radelet, who served as a senior Treasury official under both Democratic and Republican administrations, said that reforms could include drafting ...
June 05, 2007
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has quickly become one of the world's largest funders of programs fighting the three diseases. Just five years after its founding, the Global Fund had approved proposals worth $6.8 billion for 448 programs in 136 countries, and disbursed over $...