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Mar
13
2017
9:30—11:00 AM
March 03, 2017
While still a work in progress, the Trump Administration’s first budget request to Congress is expected to contain deep cuts to the US foreign affairs budget. What would substantial funding reductions mean for US efforts to advance global development and for US interests more broadly? What doe...
Blog Post
March 02, 2017
When White House officials decided to talk publicly about a big boost in defense spending and big cuts for EPA, the State Department, and foreign assistance while still deep in their internal negotiation process, they did so for political reasons, making a direct case to voters devoid of any clearly...
CGD in the News
March 02, 2017
Implying foreign aid is bloated creates a fake problem that Trump can then claim to solve, Charles Kenny, author of “Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding,” told me. “You can’t balance the budget on the back of the State Department and USAID.” Scott Morri...
CGD in the News
March 01, 2017
Early reports said Trump planned to propose 37 percent cuts to the State Department and USAID budgets. Many experts said they expected that those cuts would exclude U.S. contributions to security ­assistance. “That leaves a much smaller component, which takes us directly to ...
Blog Post
February 10, 2017
This week, CGD hosted a discussion with Philippe Le Houérou, the CEO of IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank. He was enthusiastic about his institution’s role in leveraging private capital and getting from billions to trillions of dollars for development, but he also ...
CGD in the News
February 06, 2017
Scott Morris, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Global Development, said much would depend on the Trump administration’s pick for leadership of USAID. “We just don’t know,” he said ... Morris, who also directs the Center for Global Development’s U.S. De...
CGD in the News
February 06, 2017
During his confirmation hearing Thursday, Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin offered a glimpse into an obscure, but powerful government committee that could join an emerging toolkit the Trump administration could use to launch a global trade war.Asked about the Committee on Foreign Investme...
Multimedia
January 18, 2017
The world’s development challenges are far too vast for the old way of doing things. To generate the trillions of dollars necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, international institutions, policymakers and the private sector need a new approach that unlocks the power of privat...
Feb
8
2017
2:00—3:30 PM
January 18, 2017
The world’s development challenges are far too vast for the old way of doing things. To generate the trillions of dollars necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, international institutions, policymakers and the private sector need a new approach that unlocks the power of pri...