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March 17, 2015
In 2013, our CGD colleagues Julia Clark and David Roodman designed a low-cost quantitative approach to ranking think tank performance. We applied their methodology in early 2015 to produce an updated ranking of US and international development think tanks on the basis of 2014 data. The rankings aim ...
Blog Post
March 17, 2015
In 2013, our CGD colleagues Julia Clark and David Roodman designed a low-cost quantitative approach to rank US and international development think tanks by the strength of their public profile. Think tanks trade in ideas and ideas need to be noticed to be adopted. Thus, think tanks’ ability to...
Feb
12
2015
12:30—2:00 PM
February 05, 2015
***This was not a CGD event and took place at the World Bank offices in Washington, DC***
MENA Chief Economist Seminar Series: "Sovereign Wealth Funds, Domestic Investment and Fiscal Rules" by Alan Gelb
The recent decline in world oil prices highlights the difficulties faced by o...
Blog Post
January 29, 2015
The post-2015 development agenda is being shaped as we speak. The United Nations has recently released a report that synthesizes the full range of inputs received from various stakeholders. These inputs, including ones from the World Bank Group, are a substantive contribution to the intergovernmenta...