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Dec
8
2009
10:30—12:00 PM
November 23, 2009
Latin America’s response to the global financial crisis has been remarkably strong. Effective use of fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies allowed Latin America to fare better than other parts of the world and better than the region itself during previous global economic crises. But macroecono...
Sep
29
2009
10:30—12:00 PM
September 21, 2009
Join us as we launch CGD’s newest book, Growing Pains in Latin America: An Economic Growth Framework as Applied to Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru. The book’s principal author and editor, CGD senior fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez, will address the central issues posed in this book: Beyon...
Jul
1
2009
10:00—12:00 PM
June 18, 2009
Today in sub-Saharan Africa, 61 percent of all people infected with HIV are women, and women age 15-24 are the most vulnerable to infection. Women and girls are at greater risk of HIV infection in part due to power imbalances between women and men that limit the social and economic choices that wome...
May
21
2009
2:00—3:30 PM
May 18, 2009
Spillovers from a global crisis that began in advanced economies pose a severe test to Latin America and the Caribbean region. The good news is that during this decade, countries of the hemisphere have made themselves more resilient—though not immune—by strengthening policy frameworks and reducing h...
Apr
20
2009
3:00—4:30 PM
April 09, 2009
Please join us for a discussion with Dr. Alan Whiteside, where he will examine the origins of AIDS exceptionalism and how it has helped and hindered our response to the epidemic. Whiteside will ask if exceptionalism is still a useful concept in light of our current knowledge about the epidemic, the ...
Apr
22
2009
1:00—5:00 PM
March 11, 2009
The New Ideas in Development After the Financial Crisis Conference, sponsored by CGD and the Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on Constructive Capitalism, will examine the implications of the global financial crisis on existing development strategies. Panels of distinguished academics and policy practitione...