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Apr
23
2009
11:30—1:30 PM
April 17, 2009
DATE: Thursday, April 23, 2009
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
SUBJECT: U.S. Assistance to Africa: A Call for Foreign Aid Reform
WITNESSES:
Panel I
Mr. Earl Gast
Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator
Bureau for Africa
United States Agency for International Development
Panel II
Ousmane Badiane...
Jan
16
2009
3:00—4:30 PM
January 14, 2009
Join Nancy Birdsall, David Gergen, and CGD senior fellows who are authors of essays in our newest book, The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President , for a lively discussion of the prospects for improved U.S. development policy under President Barack Obama....
Jan
13
2009
10:00—11:30 AM
December 29, 2008
Join us for a conversation with Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO John Danilovich as he prepares to pass stewardship over the MCC to a new Administration. In his introductory remarks and subsequent dialogue with CGD Senior Fellow Steve Radelet, Ambassador Danilovich will reflect upon his r...
Jan
8
2009
3:15—4:15 PM
December 23, 2008
The multifaceted nature of current and emerging global security challenges requires a judicious and balanced use of development, diplomacy and defense--the 3Ds. United States' leadership in ensuring the success of global efforts to address poverty, protect the environment and safeguard human rights ...
Dec
2
2008
2:00—4:00 PM
November 20, 2008
On December 11th, the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) will announce which countries will be eligible to apply for funding in 2009. With funding tight, few new countries passing the eligibility indicators test, twelve of eighteen countries with signed MCC compacts failing the indicators t...
Dec
9
2008
10:00—11:15 AM
November 12, 2008
Join us for an intimate conversation with Director of U.S. Foreign
Assistance and USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore as she prepares to
pass her torch of elevating development and modernizing foreign
assistance to a new Administration. In a dialogue moderated by CGD
Senior Fellow Steve Radelet,...
Sep
18
2008
9:00—10:30 AM
September 16, 2008
Each day brings fresh evidence that Americans’ well-being is linked to the lives of others around the world as never before. Accelerating advances in technology and the creation of new knowledge offer undreamed-of opportunities. Yet global poverty, inequality, disease and the threat of rapid climate...