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CGD in the News
January 15, 2010
Sir, Jeffrey Sachs ("America should not fight Aids on its own", February 4) regrets that the US has allotted, out of its new commitment of $10bn over five years for tackling the Aids pandemic, only $1bn to the multilateral Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He calls on Europe and J...
CGD in the News
January 15, 2010
Sir, Your editorial "The IMF should not be a European fief" and Moises Naim's article "End the Fund's succession fiasco" (March 5 - subscription required) both overlook a fundamental argument for ending Group of Seven backroom dealing and making the leadership choice at the International Monetary Fu...
CGD in the News
January 15, 2010
Sir:
In their excellent contribution on U.S. policy toward Pakistan ("America must broaden its policy on Pakistan," November 9 - subscription required), Teresita Schaffer and Karl Inderfurth propose an increase in U.S. economic and social development aid to Pakistan, especially for education.
January 15, 2010
G-20 heads of state gathering in Washington this upcoming weekend to seek solutions to the global financial crisis should consider ways to strengthen the IMF and the World Bank, the international financial institutions set up after World War II,
to prevent a repeat of the Great Depression. CGD pres...
January 15, 2010
For the next U.S. president, effective development policy is not only the right thing to do, it will be crucial to the future well-being of the American people. A new CGD volume, The White House and the World, offers practical suggestions for a coherent U.S. strategy. CGD president Nancy Birdsall, ...
CGD in the News
January 14, 2010
Sir, Martin Wolf ("The right way to expand aid is with care and caution", January 19) is right to argue that governments (and people) in Africa's poorest economies need incentives if they are to take on the difficult politics of transforming their societies to achieve the Millennium Development Goal...