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Jun
30
2010
4:00—5:30 PM
June 25, 2010
The Center for Global Development presents a discussion on
Liberia: Life After Debt
Featuring
Augustine Ngafuan
Minister of Finance, Liberia
Amara Konneh
Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs, Liberia
John Lipsky
First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Mode...
Mar
4
2009
3:30—5:00 PM
February 24, 2009
Abstract: Can brief, foreign-funded efforts to build local institutions have positive effects on local patterns of governance, cooperation, and wellbeing? Prior research suggests that such small-scale, externally-driven interventions are unlikely to substantially alter patterns of social interaction...
Aug
26
2008
6:30—8:30 PM
August 14, 2008
Please join us on Tuesday, August 26th as we welcome Liberian novelist Elma Shaw to discuss her new book, Redemption Road.
About Redemption Road: Set in Monrovia during the administration of Liberia's former president, Charles Taylor, Elma Shaw's riveting debut is a story of recovery, atonement,...
Apr
11
2008
9:00—10:30 AM
April 03, 2008
The inauguration of the administration of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in January 2006 marked an end to twenty-five years of misrule and civil conflict which had left the country in ruins. The Sirleaf administration has set the country on a new course, placing transparency, accountability, good governance,...
ESSAYS
February 19, 2008
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who will host President Bush on Thursday in the final stop of his five-country Africa tour, has news that may surprise some people: despite the problems in some African countries, things are clearly improving in much of the continent. In a new CGD essay co-a...
WORKING PAPERS
November 26, 2007
In this new CGD working paper, CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet explores the challenges Liberia faces in revitalizing economic growth after 25 years of gross economic mismanagement and 14 years of brutal civil war. He examines the new government's progress, including the major steps it has taken in i...
ESSAYS
April 16, 2007
In this essay, CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet describes Liberia's debt situation and the key issues in moving forward on debt relief with the IMF, World Bank, African Development Bank and bilateral creditors. He explains why it is important for Liberia's recovery that the international community ac...