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Blog Post
March 03, 2023
Next week, a once-in-a-decade UN conference will meet to address the challenges facing Least Developed Countries (LDCs). It will plan delivery of the Doha Programme of Action (PoA), and review implementation of the Istanbul PoA. As part of this, attention should be given to a set of lesser-known UN ...
Oct
27
2022
3:30—5:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
October 21, 2022
There are signs that India’s growth boom has stalled, and the pace of monetary poverty reduction decelerated. The Modi government has responded with what Arvind Subramanian has called "the new welfarism," involving massive public spending on essentially private goods and services like bank accounts,...
Aug
23
2022
9:00—10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
August 17, 2022
The world is up against a potentially catastrophic food security crisis. War in Ukraine, the drawn-out COVID-19 pandemic, high inflation, and the ongoing impact of climate change are all exacerbating already unstable food access and causing food prices to grow.
The Food and Agriculture Organizat...
Blog Post
March 18, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked significant rises in energy and food prices. Our analysis suggests the scale of price spike will push over 40 million into extreme poverty. In this blog, we look at the outlook for commodity prices as well as the significant implications for hunger and povert...
Jul
20
2020
10:00—10:00 AM
July 20, 2020
The EBRD’s board of Governors, representing its 71 shareholders, will elect a new president to succeed Sir Suma Chakrabarti this autumn for a 4-year term. CGD’s Mikaela Gavas sits down with two out of the three nominated candidates to discuss their visions for the Bank’s future of the candidates. Th...
WORKING PAPERS
May 14, 2020
The IMF’s forecasts of GDP growth in 2020 suggest a substantially muted impact of the COVID crisis for developing countries compared to advanced economies. We hope that the relative optimism will not induce complacency and elicit a less-than-forceful response by countries themselves nor legitim...