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Apr
26
2004
12:00—1:30 PM
July 20, 2005
Jeffrey Williamson (Laird Bell Professor of Economics, Harvard University), one of the world's leading economic historians and a specialist in pre-1950 globalization, will discuss his most recent research on the historical determinants of international migration and its implications for today's migr...
Apr
22
2004
5:45—5:45 PM
July 20, 2005
The Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) is an unprecedented program in both its design and in its goal of easing the crippling debt burden of some of the world's poorest countries. Despite its accomplishments, questions remain regarding whether the Initiative delved deeply enough f...
BOOKS
July 20, 2005
In this study, Steven Radelet examines the MCA's potential promise and possible pitfalls. He offers a rigorous analysis of the MCA’s central challenge: making foreign aid more effective in supporting economic growth and poverty reduction in the poor countries. He systematically explores what makes t...
BOOKS
July 20, 2005
This book tackles head on the tension between foreign policy and development goals that chronically afflicts U.S. foreign assistance; the danger of being dismissed as one more instance of the United States going it alone instead of buttressing international cooperation; and the risk of exacerbating ...