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Press Release
November 16, 2022
The Latin American Committee on Macroeconomic and Financial Issues (CLAAF, by its Spanish acronym) today praised the central banks of Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Peru for taking swift and aggressive action to address growing inflation – and urged them to stay the course, as conquering inflation will b...
Blog Post
February 24, 2022
Last week, the central bank of Chile became the 9th member of the Latin American Reserve Fund (known by its Spanish acronym, FLAR), Latin America’s regional lender of last resort. This is great news for the pursuit of financial and economic stability in the region. Here is why.
ESSAYS
October 20, 2014
It’s 2030 and instead of racing toward the brink of climate catastrophe the world has begun to back away. Annual global emissions of heat-trapping gasses have fallen two-thirds—faster than anybody had dared to hope as recently as a dozen years ago—with continued steep reductions ah...
Blog Post
September 30, 2014
Today is my last day as the vice president for communications and policy outreach at CGD. It’s been almost 10 years to the day since I joined CGD as director of communications in the modest offices at 1776 Massachusetts Ave. In that time my children have grown up and left home and CGD has move...
Blog Post
September 30, 2014
This Wonkcast was originally recorded on September 2, 2014.
As the Ebola epidemic continued to spread in West Africa, with more than 3,000 cases and 1,500 deaths, I invited CGD senior fellow Mead Over, a health economist and one of the world’s top experts on the economics of HIV/AI...
Blog Post
September 22, 2014
Where do you go when hit with a serious medical condition? “The hospital!” is an obvious answer for people in high income countries, but for people in low-income and emerging market economies, access to a proper hospital is often just a dream. Why are decent hospitals in the developing w...
Multimedia
September 19, 2014
Where do you go when hit with a serious medical condition? “The hospital!” is an obvious answer for people in high income countries, but for people in low-income and emerging market economies, access to a proper hospital is often just a dream. Why are decent hospitals in the developing w...