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Feb
5
2010
12:00—1:15 PM
January 21, 2010
Please join us in honoring Diego Hidalgo Schnur, the 2009 winner of the Commitment to Development Ideas in Action Award, sponsored jointly by the Center for Global Development (CGD) and Foreign Policy magazine. Hidalgo’s career reflects his resolute dedication to helping the world’s poorest people. ...
January 16, 2010
On December 7, 2008, Nancy Birdsall spoke at the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy. Her speech entitled The Development Agenda as a Global Social Contract; Or, We Are All in this Development Boat Together, proposes a new global social contract with which to address the growing instabil...
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...