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Feb
10
2022
12:00—1:15 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
January 26, 2022
Rising inequality and widespread poverty, social unrest and polarization, gender and ethnic disparities, declining social mobility, economic fragility, unbalanced growth due to technology and globalization, and existential danger from climate change are urgent global concerns. These issues are inter...
Sep
29
2020
11:00—12:15 PM EDT
September 21, 2020
Ending poverty continues to be a major challenge for the global community. It is as relevant today as it was two decades ago, when four women rose to prominent positions as ministers in charge of international development in their governments. Ending Global Poverty: Four Women’s Noble Conspiracy tel...
Jul
23
2020
10:00—10:00 AM ET
July 20, 2020
Dr. Nancy Birdsall will discuss the plight of the “strugglers”; the billions of economically insecure people who live above the poverty line but far from the more secure middle class. She will also discuss how countries can pay greater attention to the needs of the strugglers in the design and imple...
Jul
14
2016
2:00—3:00 PM
July 01, 2016
Please join us for a special event to mark CGD’s 15th anniversary, when IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde will give a speech highlighting the critical role of global collaboration to address the issues facing low-income developing countries. Last year, the international community came to...
Feb
23
2016
12:00—2:00 PM
February 19, 2016
The Kapuscinski Development Lecture will be delivered by Nancy Birdsall, Founding President at the Center for Global Development. The lecture is a joint initiative of the European Commission, the United Nations Development Programme and the Hertie School of Governance. This is a non-C...
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...
May
29
2014
12:30—2:00 PM
May 19, 2014
Economists are increasingly focusing on the links between rising inequality and the fragility of growth. The relationship between inequality, leverage and the financial cycle which sowed the seeds for 2007-08 global financial crisis, together with the disproportionate political influence of the r...
May
15
2014
12:30—2:00 PM
May 07, 2014
Consumption taxes for goods and services—sometimes called Value Added Taxes or VAT—are a common and effective revenue-raising tool used in many developing countries. But in some low- and middle-income countries, all but the poorest 10% of the population pay more in such taxes than they receive in ca...
May
8
2014
2:00—3:30 PM
April 23, 2014
Despite being one of the fastest-growing economies, India has hit a turbulent patch in recent years with declining growth and increasing macro-economic instability. India's emphasis on skill-intensive manufacturing and services over unskilled manufacturing has left a large portion of the population ...
Sep
25
2013
8:30—7:00 PM
September 24, 2013
High Level Seminar on New Challenges to Growth and Productivity is a co-sponsored event organized jointly by The Growth Dialogue and The Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G-24).
The objective of the seminar is to take stock of the implica...