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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...
January 16, 2010
Nancy Birdsall delivered the presentation "Rescuing the MDGs: Paying for results" at the Fighting World Poverty Conference held at New York University. The presentation explores the weaknesses of the current approach to achieving the Millennium Development Goals and introduces a new proposal for mee...
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December 17, 2009
I am pleased to share with our readers at Owen’s request this discussion of Cash on Delivery Aid, which appeared yesterday on his blog, Owen Abroad.
Linking Aid to Results: Why Are Some Development Workers Anxious?
By Owen Barder
The Center for Global Development is working on an id...
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11:30—1:00 PM
September 09, 2009
The global financial crisis that originated in the developed economies has hit low-income countries hard. As they were coping with the food and fuel price shocks of 2008, the crisis caused a sharp decline in world trade, falling commodity prices, and dropping remittances. In response, the IMF has un...