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Dec
3
2009
10:00—11:30 AM
November 23, 2009
Andrew Mitchell, MP, UK Shadow Minister for International Development, will be speaking about the UK Conservative Party's development policy and plans, including the main elements of the "green paper" issued recently. One World Conservatism lays out the Tory strategy for fighting global poverty and ...
Jul
29
2009
9:00—10:30 AM
July 20, 2009
The Department of Defense (DoD) has become increasingly engaged in development activities over the past ten years through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the broader counterterrorism effort. While the development community points to the links between poverty and U.S. security threats to justify...
Mar
26
2009
4:30—6:00 PM
March 16, 2009
Why is the private sector yet to take off in much of sub-Saharan Africa? In Africa's Private Sector, Vijaya Ramachandran and her co-authors identify the biggest obstacles: inadequate infrastructure (especially unreliable electricity and crumbling roads) and burdensome regulations. The authors sugges...
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...
Feb
5
2009
2:00—3:45 PM
January 28, 2009
The recently published China into Africa: Trade, Aid, and Influence sheds new light on the well studied but still poorly understood emerging relationship by drawing in the perspectives of African, Chinese, and American scholars. Robert Rotberg, volume editor, argues that China’s current thrust into...