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December 10, 2010
The International Development Association (IDA) is the World Bank’s arm that provides highly concessional loans and grants to the world’s poorest countries. IDA is one of the largest sources of assistance for these countries – of which, half are located in Sub-Saharan Africa. And, it is the single...
Blog Post
April 06, 2010
This commentary also appeared on The Huffington Post and Global Post
Last week at a United Nations conference, donors pledged more than $10 billion to finance reconstruction and development investments in Haiti. The United States promised a hefty $1.15 billion.
But pledging money is th...
WORKING PAPERS
March 26, 2010
Nancy Birdsall argues that the concept of inclusive growth should go beyond the traditional emphasis on the poor (and the rest) and take into account changes in the size and economic command of the group conventionally defined as neither poor nor rich, that is, the middle class.
Mar
15
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2:30—4:00 PM
March 08, 2010
CGD non-resident fellow Paul Romer is a professor at Stanford University and is one of the leading growth economists of our time. He will discuss his idea for a profoundly new way to reduce poverty in the developing world: chartering new cities to create centers of growth and prosperity within devel...
January 16, 2010
At the invitation of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, CGD president Nancy Birdsall addressed heads of state, foreign ministers, and other leaders in New York City on September 25, 2008, at the UN’s High-Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The event focused on a review of progre...
January 16, 2010
On October 30, 2006, Nancy Birdsall gave remarks to the Hilton Humanitarian Prize Symposium on Democracy and Development in New York City. Her speech entitled, Aid, State Formation and the Missing Middle, centers around the following questions: "What is the connection between political and human rig...