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Blog Post
December 02, 2010
This is a joint post with Rita Perakis.
The UK Department for International Development is getting down to real business on adopting results-based approaches to aid. It will allocate future resources across country and regional programs on the basis of “results offers”, as explained here. (...
Blog Post
November 10, 2010
This is a joint post with Julie Walz and originally appeared on The Broker Website.
The new Dutch government plans to cut spending on foreign aid from 0.8% to 0.7% of gross national income. Of course, by international standards, the Netherlands will remain one of the most generous n...
Multimedia
March 30, 2010
CNN en Español interviewed CGD senior fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez on the U.S. financial reform.
Rojas-Suarez expressed concern that the Federal Reserve will only supervise entities that have an asset value of more than $50 billion, but won’t supervise the small entities which usually start bankin...
Blog Post
January 17, 2010
The massive earthquake that struck Haiti last week has wreaked havoc on a scale that appears unprecedented. Unfortunately, there are many precedents, including several in the last five years, such as the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, which killed an estimated 220,000 people, the South Asia earthqua...