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Apr
15
2024
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Washington, DC
9:30—10:45 AM ET / 2:30-3:45PM BST
April 01, 2024
USAID Assistant Administrator for Global Health Dr. Atul Gawande will share his perspective on the scope and challenge of global lead poisoning as well as highlight USAID’s commitment to accelerating the international response. Then CGD Senior Fellow Rachel Silverman Bonnifield will facilitate a pan...
Nov
14
2022
8:30—12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/ 1:30—5:00pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
October 28, 2022
Climate change, conflict, food insecurity, and pandemics. These global challenges are growing in urgency, and complexity—and they are not confined by borders. While wealthy countries are aging and their growth rates are faltering, the traditional manufacturing-led path to rapid growth in poorer coun...
Apr
19
2022
1:00—2:30 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
April 08, 2022
To discuss the impact of the war in Ukraine on low-income economies, and how to structure a robust response, CGD convenes a panel discussion of distinguished experts in developing country finances and the global aid and finance architecture.
Dec
3
2021
10:00—11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
November 22, 2021
Almost three decades after the highly indebted poor countries (HIPC) initiative cleared $76 billion in unsustainable debts from the balance sheets of 37 countries, the sovereign debt burdens of many African countries are once again approaching concerning levels. But despite the many similarities bet...
Jun
28
2021
1:00—1:45 PM Washington DC Time
June 21, 2021
In the Biden Administration’s Interim National Security Guidance of March 2021, the United States declared its intent to “provide foreign assistance to promote global stability and offer an alternative to predatory development models” through U.S. development agencies and financing tools. The Center...
Apr
16
2021
9:00—10:00 AM ET
April 07, 2021
China is the world’s largest official creditor, but basic facts about the terms and conditions of its lending were—until recently—obscured. On March 31, 2021, the Center for Global Development, in collaboration with AidData at William & Mary, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Georgetown ...
Oct
28
2020
1:00—2:00 PM EDT
October 20, 2020
Seventy-five years after its inception, the multilateral development system is under stress and challenged as never before. At the threshold of the “decade of action” (2020-2030), the multilateral development system has hardly ever been so solicited, with a highly ambitious global development agenda...
Oct
21
2020
9:00—10:00 AM EST
October 14, 2020
The New Development Bank recently marked its 5th anniversary with over $21 billion in cumulative financing commitments in support of development projects in its member countries. Due to its unique ownership structure, drawn exclusively from the five “BRICS” countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, a...
Oct
8
2020
8:30—10:30 AM EDT
October 05, 2020
Since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, the narrative on financing progress towards these goals in low-income countries (LICs) and select lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) has been dominated by a focus on the desirable rather than the feasible. The need for more r...
Aug
11
2020
9:00—10:00 AM ET
August 03, 2020
The West may have woken up to China’s role in developing countries with the advent of the Belt and Road initiative in 2015, but China’s economic relationships with these countries had already been rapidly expanding earlier in the decade. Now, in the midst of a global health and economic crisis, Chin...