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CGD in the News
November 07, 2014
Currently, there is no universally accepted definition for energy access, but the International Energy Agency (IEA) measures modern energy access as 100 kilowatt hours (kWh) per person per year. As Todd Moss, senior fellow with the Center for Global Development, points out, the average American cons...
CGD in the News
October 31, 2014
“If Power Africa works, then it would deliver a huge boost for African countries,” Ben Leo, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington and a former White House director of Africa affairs, said in an e-mail. “Addressing the energy poverty challenge will take ...
CGD in the News
September 04, 2014
In the first week of August, official delegations from 50 African countries came to Washington to attend the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. The meeting was typical in its extraordinary pageantry, overzealous security, and relative lack of tangible accomplishments. [...]
Yet there was one outcome with ...
CGD in the News
August 06, 2014
“[Power Africa] was always designed as something that the administration could do without Congress,” said Todd Moss, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. It makes sense in the short term as a way to get it off the ground, Moss said.
“I think it was a long-term mista...
CGD in the News
July 28, 2014
Leo: "Power by all accounts is one of the most binding constraints for growth and economic opps in Sub Saharan Africa. You look at all the different statistics, the figures, the surveys, and it's at the very top of the list." [0:55]
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Leo: "By taking this approach [of expandin...
CGD in the News
July 22, 2014
“The overwhelming majority of the African leaders are going to be coming to Washington [for the U.S.-Africa Summit] emphasising trade and investment, and in that context this issue is very central to their many constituencies – touching on economic, political and social issues,” Be...
CGD in the News
July 18, 2014
In less than a month, Washington will play host to roughly 50 African heads of state, hundreds of cabinet-level ministers, and over a thousand American and African business leaders and investors. It will be a truly historic moment. More importantly, it will be an unparalleled opportunity to advance ...
CGD in the News
July 14, 2014
While developed world demand is weak and likely to grow only slowly, countries in the developing world are desperate for more electricity. Nigeria, for example, with total generation capacity of about 4 gigawatts, will need 55GW in 2030, according to the Center for Global Development, a Washington-b...
CGD in the News
May 27, 2014
Electricity expansion is the next big thing in U.S.-Africa relations. Boosting energy access is good for American business, good for American foreign policy, and transformative for millions of poor people—all at no cost to U.S taxpayers. This is an easy policy win. But the Senate has to move q...
CGD in the News
April 09, 2014
“There is no silver bullet for promoting economic development. But what I think is very clear, and what I think the White House and the federal agencies have come to recognize through [the Power Africa] initiative, is that one of the major, and in many cases the number one, constraint on job g...