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CGD in the News
December 31, 2009
WASHINGTON: Whatever happened to debt relief for the poorest countries in Africa? That's the question nobody is asking in the applause for the Bush administration's announcements last week of new support for AIDS prevention ($500 million) and for basic education ($100 million) in the world's poorest...
CGD in the News
December 31, 2009
Political leaders in the world's richest nations frequently proclaim their fervent desire to end poverty worldwide and boast of their spending on foreign aid to poor nations, reports the International Herald Tribune. Their aid efforts - which add up to about $58 billion a year - are praiseworthy. Bu...
CGD in the News
December 31, 2009
The distance between a Wall Street bond trader and a two-year-old in a village in Mozambique is shrinking. What is bringing the two together is a recognition that it may be possible to reduce one kind of risk - the risk of disease that the Mozambican child faces - by buying and selling another kind ...
CGD in the News
December 30, 2009
When celebrities such as Angelina Jolie or Bono highlight human tragedy to show that something can be done to alleviate it, the heart melts and the purse strings loosen. But the stars, alas, aren't up on the economic literature. Research is increasingly questioning the benefits of foreign aid.
CGD in the News
December 30, 2009
Democrats in the House of Representatives delayed consideration of a free-trade agreement with Colombia last Thursday in a bid to force the Bush administration to improve support for U.S. workers displaced by foreign competition and to do more to ensure that Colombia reduces violence against union m...
CGD in the News
December 30, 2009
The leaders of the world's largest economies have agreed to address the global food price crisis at the G8 summit in June. What should they do? CGD president Nancy Birdsall and senior fellow Arvind Subramanian argue in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the answer lies in policies that promote trade a...
CGD in the News
December 30, 2009
The Indian policy response to inflation has been somewhere between poor and awful.Yes, India has a global inflation problem because world demand, especially for commodities, is running ahead of world capacity. The phenomenon is global but policy responses will be national.
So, which countries are g...
CGD in the News
December 23, 2009
This op-ed originally appeared in the Business Standard.
Nancy Birdsall & Arvind Subramanian: Reduce Verbal Emissions First
By Nancy Birdsall and Arvind Subramanian
The emerging consensus is that no agreement on climate change — at least not one with specific commitments — will be reached at next...
CGD in the News
December 23, 2009
This op-ed originally appeared in the Business Standard.
By Arvind Subramanian / New Delhi November 25, 2009,
Around the peak of the global financial crisis, in late November 2008, I wrote a column which concluded: “Some time in the not-too-distant future, when the storm clouds recede, when the ru...