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Dec
5
2023
VIRTUAL
8:30—10:00 AM ET / 1:30-3:00 PM GMT
November 21, 2023
This conversation will address important questions about the topic of a common African market: How is the digital and innovation-driven economy being prioritized by the AfCFTA? What should it look like in the Common African Market? What is the role of trade facilitation and supply chains in trade an...
Blog Post
November 09, 2023
There are so many studies regarding so many aspects of development economics that it can be difficult to keep up. Last week was the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference, often called NEUDC. Researchers presented more than 130 papers across a wide range of topics, from agr...
CGD NOTES
November 08, 2023
The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is due to expire in 2025, a quarter of a century after it was first enacted. AGOA provides qualifying sub-Saharan African countries with duty-free access to the US market for most agricultural and manufactured products. Its architects and supporters point...
Blog Post
October 30, 2023
Our new paper forecasts global structural transformation over the next thirty years. It shouldn’t come as a great surprise that it suggests the planetary shift toward services employment and out of both agriculture and manufacturing will continue. But it does suggest something many find might novel ...
Nov
15
2023
VIRTUAL
10:00—11:30 AM EDT | 3:00 - 4:30 PM GMT
October 18, 2023
On October 1st, the 3-year transition period of the EU CBAM Regulation will begin. Starting in 2026, importers of certain carbon-intensive goods will be required to pay the EU carbon price for emissions embedded in these goods. Applied for iron and steel, cement, fertilizers, aluminium, electricity,...
Nov
16
2023
VIRTUAL
9:00—10:30 AM ET | 2:00 - 3:30 PM GMT
October 13, 2023
The Center for Global Development and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung will bring together policymakers and researchers from the G7, Europe, and Africa to discuss the potential of the Global Gateway (GG) initiative and the Partnership for Global Investment and Infrastructure (PGII) in fulfilling Africa's ne...
Oct
26
2023
VIRTUAL
8:30—10:00 AM ET/ 1:30-3:00 PM BST
October 12, 2023
Is it time to start work on the Common African Market? If so, who are the key stakeholders for the Common African Market, and what are their roles? The emergence of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will be transformative. What does that mean for the African Growth and Opportunity Act...
WORKING PAPERS
August 29, 2023
The war in Ukraine was associated with large changes in the prices of key food and fuel commodities in 2022 which produced macroeconomic gains for exporters and losses as import costs increased. Across 49 countries benefitting, these gains averaged about 8 percent of GDP and reach up to 36 percent o...