CGD hosted USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah on July 9, 2013, for a conversation with Nancy Birdsall on the role of USAID in Africa—current initiatives, historical engagement, and the agency’s plans and goals for the future.
Africa’s industrial progress has been disappointing. Part of the reason is that labor costs are higher than one might expect, given GDP per capita. Alan Gelb, Christian Meyer, and Vijaya Ramachandran distill the policy lessons.
In this paper, Nancy Birdsall sets out basic information on the growing middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean and provides grounds for optimism that such expansion might reinforce the inclusive politics that sustain broadly shared growth.