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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.
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...
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...