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CGD in the News
January 04, 2010
Sir, Larry Summers, writing in the Economists' Forum ("Why not suppress the fund's board altogether?", September 27), notes that lenders reasonably set lending terms, and worries that support for the International Monetary Fund from the US and the other traditional powers would flag were there a til...
CGD in the News
January 04, 2010
Sir, The Stern review on climate economics may well achieve a long-overdue shift in the burden of proof towards those who argue that it is uneconomic to cut the rising path of carbon emissions by anything more than trivial amounts ("Benefits of climate action outweigh costs", November 7 - subscripti...
CGD in the News
January 04, 2010
Sir, It makes eminent sense for the International Monetary Fund to sell some of its gold to write down its bad loans, as Sony Kapoor writes (Letters, February 5). Any responsible creditor would use its capital or provisions to do so. It also makes sense for the IMF to sell gold to generate a stream ...
CGD in the News
January 04, 2010
Sir, Your picture of Michel Camdessus, arms folded, hovering over President Suharto ("Wrong lessons from Asia's crisis", July 2) brought a wave of nostalgia and a desire to clarify the record.
This picture has long been seen as capturing a bygone era in which countries had to accede to the Internat...
CGD in the News
January 04, 2010
From Ms April Harding.
Sir, Andrew Jack (“World Bank ‘wrong’ to support private care”, February 13) is absolutely right to cite scepticism about Oxfam’s proposal that the global community focus only on public provision to achieve health improvements in developing countries. If we listen, we will le...
WORKING PAPERS
January 04, 2010
Does foreign military assistance strengthen or further weaken fragile states facing internal conflict? In a new working paper, CGD post-doctoral fellow Oeindrila Dube and co-author Suresh Naidu find that U.S. military assistance to Colombia may increase violence and decrease voter turnout, undermini...