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10:00—11:00 AM ET / 3:00-4:00 PM GMT
January 16, 2024
In this webinar, experts will review the ongoing problem of gaps in the global pandemic risk financing architecture in the aftermath of the G20 Pandemic Financing report and G7 Nagasaki Health Ministers’ Communiqué, and propose specific policy recommendations for world leaders and multilateral and b...
Blog Post
April 14, 2014
Clare Walsh, a senior official in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the chair of the Development Working Group of the G-20, recently visited CGD for a round-table discussion with CGD senior staff. Afterwards I hosted her and CGD senior associate, Scott Morris, a former ...
Blog Post
March 11, 2014
My guest on the Wonkcast this week is Scott Morris, a senior associate here at CGD and former deputy assistant secretary at the US Treasury, where he oversaw US ties with the multilateral development banks.
Scott recently led a study group of CGD colleagues and outside experts that reviewed G-20 ef...
Blog Post
October 22, 2013
My guest on this week’s Global Prosperity Wonkcast is CGD senior fellow Vijaya Ramachandran, here to speak to us about the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The FAO is the leading global institution dedicated to raising agricultural productivity, but a new re...
Blog Post
January 15, 2013
When you opt to buy fair trade certified coffee at the grocery store instead of uncertified, how much good are you doing? My guest on this week’s Wonkcast, Kimberly Ann Elliott, draws on her recent policy paper, Is My Fair Trade Coffee Really Fair? Trends and Challenges in Fair Trade Certifica...
Jun
28
2012
4:00—5:30 PM
June 18, 2012
Over the course of one week, world leaders convened in Los Cabos, Mexico, for the G20 Summit and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. The outcomes of these two high-level meetings have potentially important implications for poor people in the devel...
Blog Post
November 08, 2011
This is a joint post with Owen Barder
Whether future historians remember last week’s G-20 Summit in Cannes will depend on what happens in the weeks and months ahead. If the eurozone problems spiral out of control, Cannes will be to the coming crash as the 1933 London Economic Conference was to t...