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Blog Post
March 24, 2014
I have always chafed at the idea of “capacity building” – a donor fallback in developing countries whenever progress on a donor-financed project is slow. Too much of what donors mean by capacity building has turned out to be training sessions, workshops, and nice trips of mid-level...
CGD in the News
March 21, 2014
Nancy Birdsall, founding president of the Centre for Global Development think tank in Washington DC, called the book "deeply radical and thought-provoking, and brilliantly entertaining". She writes: "Development insiders will, with some justification, complain about one-side...
CGD in the News
March 18, 2014
From the interview:
Inequality is a moral problem, but more than that, it causes inefficiency in the economy. How can we fight these inequalities? Nancy Birdsall, global pioneer in the new fight against poverty, responds.
De la entrevista:
La desigualdad es un problema moral, pe...
Blog Post
March 18, 2014
How can donors know if their aid is making a difference? This question is tougher than it seems. Attributing results to donor inputs seems straightforward if the donor pays for progress on a measurable outcome, as CGD has proposed for Cash on Delivery Aid (COD Aid). If the desire...
Blog Post
March 18, 2014
Here’s a fact about the IMF reform package, agreed in 2010 in a negotiation led by the United States and since approved by 158 countries, but (embarrassingly and cavalierly) stalled in the US Congress: It would increase Ukraine’s access to IMF resources to deal with its fi...
CGD in the News
March 13, 2014
"The IMF is coming kind of late to the party in terms of worrying about inequality and what can be done about it," said Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development. "But they are a big player, so we're glad they came to the party."
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March 12, 2014
The Peterson Institute for International Economics will cohost with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the release of an important and timely new IMF paper titled "Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality" on Thursday, March 13, 2014. IMF First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton will present the pa...
Blog Post
February 14, 2014
Last week, we sat down with Lawrence to record a Wonkcast on our new working paper The Median is the Message: A Good-Enough Measure of Material Well-Being and Shared Development Progress. In the paper, we argue that survey-based median household consumption expenditure (or income) per...