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CGD in the News
November 19, 2007
On November 19th, the Washington Post ran a full-page science feature by Rick Weiss on page A6 with a map of the world showing projected impacts on agriculture by country, and two bar charts showing the biggest “winners and losers” globally and within the U.S. The graphics were based upon William Cl...
CGD NOTES
November 12, 2007
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) provides more than $5 billion per year to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. Exactly how is that money spent? Donors, recipients, and even PEPFAR staff are often left guessing, because much of the extensive data the U.S. government collects on the pro...
WORKING PAPERS
October 15, 2007
This week, public health advocates gather in London to mark the 20th anniversary of the global safe motherhood initiative, launched in 1987 to reduce the number of mothers who die or suffer injury giving birth. Despite the advocates' work, the initiative has yet to gain the political traction needed...
HIV/AIDS MONITOR ANALYSIS
October 10, 2007
Donor funding for HIV/AIDS has skyrocketed in the last decade: from US$ 300 million in 1996 to US$ 8.9 billion in 2006. Yet, surprisingly little is known about how this money is spent. Following the Funding for HIV/AIDS, by CGD's HIV/AIDS Monitor team, analyzes the policies and practices of the worl...
BRIEFS
September 27, 2007
In 2004 a working group of experts was convened by the Center for Global Development to identify cases in which large-scale efforts to improve health in developing countries have succeeded—saving millions of lives and preserving the livelihoods and social fabric of entire communities. Seventeen of t...
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September 24, 2007
On Wednesday, September 12, Center for Global Development and the Peterson Institute for International Economics released William Cline's new book, Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country. C. Fred Bergsten, Director of the Peterson Institute, and Nancy Birdsall, President of CGD,...
CGD in the News
September 17, 2007
On September 13th, Voice of America published an article, and an audio report, about CGD senior fellow Bill Cline's new book "Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country."
From the article:
"By the end of this century, if current trends continue, world agriculture will be in seriou...
BRIEFS
September 17, 2007
This CGD Brief, based on Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country, by senior fellow William Cline, explores the implications of global warming for world agriculture, with special attention to China, India, Brazil, and the poor countries of the tropical belt in Africa and Latin Ame...