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Jun
15
2023
12:30—7:00 PM ET
May 31, 2023
Leaded gasoline is now history. Yet from Flint, Michigan, to Dhaka, Bangladesh—and almost everywhere in between—the silent scourge of lead poisoning is still with us. Join the Center for Global Development and Pure Earth for a comprehensive half-day of learning and planning for collective action to ...
Dec
15
2022
10:30—12:30 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/ 3:30 - 5:30pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
November 28, 2022
Please join us in our London office for a conversation with Abhijeet Singh, Associate Professor, Stockholm School of Economics and CGD Non-Resident Fellow, moderated by CGD Senior Fellow Susannah Hares.
May
4
2022
VIRTUAL
10:00—11:00 AM ET
April 29, 2022
Join us as we hear from Dr. Pramod Varma, Chief Architect of Aadhaar and India Stack, as well as co-creator of becknprotocol.io, is discussing how Beckn Protocol and the Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA), both open source digital public good (DPG) efforts, are being leveraged by In...
Jun
11
2020
10:00—11:00 AM EDT
June 10, 2020
Developing countries are being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. As governments impose strict lockdowns to contain the spread of the coronavirus, families and small businesses are finding it difficult to earn enough to tide these difficult times. This has created a vast number of ‘new poor’ who wil...
Sep
26
2019
12:30—2:00 PM GMT
September 26, 2019
The first target under Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Education) is for all children to be completing lower secondary school with minimum proficiency by 2030. At present just 4 in 10 children in low-income countries are even completing lower secondary, never mind with relevant learning outcomes. Wh...
Sep
23
2019
12:30—2:00 PM GMT
September 18, 2019
Gautam Rao will talk about his new research, which examines whether evidence changes the beliefs and actions of policy makers. His findings show that policy makers do update their beliefs and do make different policy decisions when presented with new evidence. This research is particularly fasc...
Jul
11
2018
9:30—11:00 AM
July 02, 2018
Digital identification systems are spreading rapidly across the world. At this event, the lead authors of the State of Aadhaar report will share key insights from their team's primary research and facilitate a discussion on the policy implications of the report's findings, for India and the ...
Nov
18
2015
12:30—2:00 PM
October 21, 2015
In this CGD Europe Sandwich Seminar, Osea Giuntella presents results from a paper with Catia Nicodemo and Carlos Vargas Silva on the effects of immigration on waiting times in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Linking administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (200...
Oct
20
2015
9:30—11:00 AM
September 09, 2015
The sizable increase in income inequality in many parts of the world since the 1990s and the severe consequences of the global economic and financial crisis have brought distributional issues to the top of the policy agenda. The challenge for many governments is to address concerns over rising inequ...