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Oct
24
2023
9:00—10:15 AM ET / 2:00-3:15 PM BST
September 29, 2023
Evidence shows that the development of early mathematics skills are a predictor of later school success and financial well being. Despite this evidence, numeracy outcomes are far lower than they should be in many low- and middle-income contexts. The Numeracy at Scale study is the second phase of the...
Feb
8
2023
11:00—12:00 PM GMT | 6:00 - 7:00am ET
January 12, 2023
Preet Gill, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development and Sir Mark Lowcock, former UN “Relief Chief”; the Department For International Development (DFID)’s longest serving Permanent Secretary; and current Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development will discuss what the future h...
Jun
9
2022
10:00—11:00 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada), 3:00—4:00pm BST, 2:00—3:00pm GMT
May 31, 2022
As the United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Sir Mark Lowcock was known colloquially as the "Relief Chief" – tasked with coordinating the global response to save lives and protect the most vulnerable. Yet when he took the job in 2017, no one could have predicted how the n...
Apr
22
2021
8:30—10:00 AM ET
April 16, 2021
Join CGD’s Masood Ahmed for a discussion with Mark Lowcock, outgoing UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, to discuss his new and practical proposal to hold the humanitarian system independently accountable for delivering what people in crisis actually want. Human...
Feb
22
2021
10:00—11:00 AM ET
February 17, 2021
Please join us for this seminar as Edward Okeke presents new research on the impact of easing physician labor supply constraints on mortality in Nigeria. In this policy experiment, conducted in coordination with the Nigerian government, physicians were randomly assigned to primary health service are...
Jul
22
2020
VIRTUAL
11:00—12:30 PM ET
July 17, 2020
Given the spread of COVID-19 around the world, school closures have affected nearly 90% of the world’s learners. Countries have turned to delivering learning content to students and parents through various modalities, including online, TV/radio, and via delivery of hard-copy learning packets. Howeve...
Apr
28
2020
12:00—12:00 PM ET
April 25, 2020
Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Sir Mark Lowcock, joins CGD President Masood Ahmed to discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in fragile states and refugee communities.
Mr. Lowcock is responsible for the oversight of all emergencies req...
Oct
30
2019
4:00—6:30 PM ET
October 25, 2019
Two weeks ago, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2019 to Michael Kremer, together with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
Michael K...
Oct
16
2019
3:30—5:00 PM GMT
October 07, 2019
David Evans, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, will present new research which tests the impact of publicly providing day-care for children age 0-3 on children’s development, labour market participation for mothers, grandmothers, and others, and household well-being in Brazil...