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May 09, 2024
As many countries around the world prepare to celebrate Mothers’ Day weekend, including in the United States, care is at the top of many people’s minds. This theme resonates from intimate household spaces to the broad corridors of global policy. The G20 is one global policy space where, each year, i...
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March 21, 2024
Many developing countries are facing an impossible situation. With the impact of cascading crises, the gulf between their financing needs and the resources available to them is widening. The combination of elevated interest rates, weakening currencies and low credit ratings are excluding them from c...
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March 05, 2024
Brazil kicked off the Finance Track of its term as G20 president on February 28-29 with a clarion call for progressive international economic action. Despite some of the familiar G20 dysfunction, the Brazilian G20 gives me a shred of hope. The Brazilians put forward some big ideas.
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March 05, 2024
Last week, CGD and ACET (The African Center for Economic Transformation) co-hosted an event on rules that limit the cross-border transfer of digital data. The basis for the discussion was David Medine’s recent paper for CGD “Data Localization: A Tax on the Poor,” and the group involved experts and p...
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January 11, 2024
More than 60 countries have data localization measures in place that restrict or prohibit the flow of certain types of data across their borders to other jurisdictions. A new CGD working paper by David Medine makes clear that these restrictions may have their greatest impact on smaller economies inc...
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December 06, 2023
This year’s, COP, the big UN climate conference, opened with the Independent High-Level Expert Group in Climate Finance saying trillions of dollars were required annually for developing countries to meet climate goals, the ONE campaign documenting that donors had utterly failed to deliver on their e...