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April 16, 2007
Struggling to recover from years of brutal civil war, Liberia is saddled with $3.7 billion in inherited debt, about 30 times the country's annual export earnings. CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet and others from the Center have been advising Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and senior members...
WORKING PAPERS
April 16, 2007
In this new working paper, CGD president Nancy Birdsall reviews a large body of work, primarily of economists, that shows that high levels of inequality in developing countries are likely to inhibit growth. She argues that high income inequality can discourage the evolution of the economic and polit...
March 26, 2007
Globalization is creating fresh opportunities for hundreds of millions of people. But the gap between richest and poorest countries is widening and inequality within many countries is increasing. CGD president Nancy Birdsall will testify this week before a U.S. congressional committee on policies fo...