Events

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Events

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Dec

20

3:00—4:30 PM

What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills? Impacts of Pre-School, School-Years and Post-School Experiences in Guatemala

Jere R. Behrman, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, will present his paper entitled "What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills? Impacts of Pre-School, School-Years and Post-School Experiences in Guatemala" at this ...

Dec

15

5:00—7:00 PM

Reconstruction in Aceh and East Timor: A Comparative Perspective

Joao Saldanha, Director of the Timor Institute of Development Studies in Dili, East Timor, will speak about the reconstruction efforts in Aceh and East Timor at this CGD seminar. Peter Timmer, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, wil...

Dec

14

12:00—2:00 PM

Beyond Hong Kong: Is the Doha Development Round Doomed?

CGD hosted panel discussion on the Doha Development Round with CGD Senior Fellow William Cline, CGD Research Fellow Kimberly Elliott, IIE Director C. Fred Bergsten, and L. Alan Winters, Director, Development Research Group, The World Bank.

Dec

9

12:00—2:00 PM

Can Food Aid Be A More Effective Development Tool?

CGD hosted a keynote address by Andrew Natsios, USAID Administrator, and panel discussion on the topic of U.S. food aid.

Dec

8

2:00—3:30 PM

Getting Clinicians to Do Their Best: Ability, Altruism, and Incentives in Tanzanian Health Care

CGD and JHU-SAIS will host a seminar with Kenneth Leonard, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland-College Park. Christel Vermeersch, Human Development Department, World Bank will serve as discussant.

Dec

1

1:00—2:30 PM

Wikipedia and Global Development

Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales, founder of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, spoke at this CGD event co-sponsored with Forum One Communications, the Brookings Institution and IDRC.

Nov

21

2:00—4:00 PM

Institute for International Economics

Launch of The Center for Global Development

The Center for Global Development was launched with a lunch reception and panel discussion.

Ideas to action: independent research for global prosperity

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