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New from CGD
December 18, 2006
The Center for Global Development has received a $10 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support policy research on global health and poverty issues. The grant includes a commitment to match up to $5 million raised by CGD from other donors over the next five years. CGD presiden...
New from CGD
November 20, 2006
The Center for Global Development celebrated its fifth anniversary last week with a reception, program, dinner and dancing at the Embassy of France for 500 people, including many of the Center’s friends and supporters, board members and staff. The CGD@5 gala highlighted the Center's remarkable earl...
New from CGD
October 10, 2006
IMF critics allege that its programs unduly constrain health spending in poor countries. The IMF argues that countries set their own spending priorities while the Fund monitors overall spending and fiscal sustainability. The issue has become more pressing, as countries seek to utilize scaled-up aid,...
New from CGD
September 18, 2006
CGD non-resident fellow Lant Pritchett argues in a new, bound-to-be-controversial book that increased labor mobility would do more for poor people in developing countries than aid, successful trade reform, and debt relief combined. Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Labor Mobility will ...
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September 11, 2006
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) currently uses 16 indicators of governance and policy performance to determine a country's eligibility for Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) finance. The MCC is proposing several changes to its selection process this year. While most of these changes are m...
New from CGD
August 10, 2006
The Center seeks a Research Assistant to provide research and organizational support to Vice President Dennis de Tray and Research Fellow Stewart Patrick on a new Fragile States Initiative, specifically on corruption and governance in fragile states and the relationship between weak states and trans...
New from CGD
July 31, 2006
By: Nancy Birdsall
07/26/2006
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This syllabus prepared by CGD President Nancy Birdsall for a course she taught in Bologna, Italy, for students of Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) brings together key readings on...
New from CGD
July 31, 2006
The head of the International Monetary Fund said he will propose giving developing countries a greater say in how the IMF is run. IMF managing director Rodrigo de Rato said that he would put forward the proposals to increase developing country representation on the Fund’s board ahead of the Annual M...
New from CGD
July 31, 2006
The Center seeks for a Research Assistant to provide research and organizational support to two Visiting Fellows in connection with projects that will examine (a) the impacts on the health sector of IMF-supported adjustment programs in low-income countries; and (b) the priority-setting practices of ...
New from CGD
July 24, 2006
The totality of the collapse of WTO talks stunned even seasoned negotiators. "It is somewhere between intensive care and the crematorium," India's Trade and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said of the Doha Round. Kimberly Elliott, the author of a new book, Delivering on Doha: Farm Trade and the Poor, a...