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New from CGD
March 20, 2006
Two former leading USAID officials, Andrew Natsios and Carol Lancaster, mounted a spirited debate over the Bush administration's planned changes to U.S. development policy at a CGD forum on March 17. The debate centered on the creation of a "dual-hatted" USAID Administrator who will also become the ...
New from CGD
February 06, 2006
As the Millennium Challenge Account ramps up its grantmaking to poor-but-well-governed countries, there is increasing interest in the proposals that countries are offering for consideration. A new MCA Monitor Field Report and a CGD Congressional briefing with Rep. Jim Kolbe (shown) and Rep. Dennis...
January 30, 2006
CGD President Nancy Birdsall begins four months of leave this week. She will be in Bologna, Italy, teaching a course on globalization, inequality and development at the Johns Hopkins SAIS campus there, and completing several writing projects. While she is away, Ruth Levine will be acting president a...
New from CGD
January 23, 2006
Secretary Rice announced long-awaited plans to reform U.S. foreign aid and named Randall Tobias as director of foreign assistance and deputy secretary of state. Steve Krasner, head of State’s Policy Planning Staff, explained the plan at a CGD event. Reactions to these proposals within the developmen...
New from CGD
January 17, 2006
Two years after qualifying for the U.S. Millennium Challenge Account, Mozambique has yet to sign a compact with its implementing agency, the Millennium Challenge Corp. Why the slow start? CGD’s Sarah Lucas reports that Mozambique officials and others blame the MCC for failing to do its homework in a...
CGD in the News
January 17, 2006
The inauguration this week of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as president of Liberia could provide the war-torn nation a desperately needed fresh start. In a Boston Globe op-ed, CGD's Steve Radelet and Jeremy Weinstein describe the huge challenges facing President Sirleaf and urge the U.S. to help demobilize...