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October 25, 2019
Two weeks ago, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2019 to Michael Kremer, together with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
Michael K...
Blog Post
October 09, 2009
This is a joint posting with Cindy Prieto.
Since the coup ousting Honduran president Manuel Zelaya last June, the international community has responded with strong words and a mix of mostly mild actions. The Organization of American States (OAS) unanimously voted to suspend Honduras when the ...
New from CGD
July 10, 2006
As leaders from the world's most powerful nations prepare to gather in St. Petersburg, Russia, this weekend, observers with even a modicum of memory could be forgiven for wondering whether the leaders suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder. After all, it was only one year ago that G-8 leaders met in...
June 05, 2006
Each year billions of dollars are spent on thousands of programs to improve health and education in the developing world but very few programs are rigorously evaluated to learn if they make a difference. A CGD proposal to fix this longstanding problem is gaining momentum.The final report of the CGD ...
New from CGD
February 06, 2006
Two new working papers examine problems with aid delivery. In An Aid-Institutions Paradox, Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, and Nicolas van de Walle show how aid can undermine institutional development, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Aid Project Proliferation and Absorptive Capacity, by David Ro...
WORKING PAPERS
January 10, 2006
Does foreign aid help develop public institutions and state capacity in developing countries? In this Working Paper, the authors suggest that despite recent calls for increased aid to poor countries by the international community, there may be an "aid-institutions paradox." While donor intentions ma...