Events

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Events

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Oct

29

12:30—2:00 PM

Center for Global Development

1800 Massachussetts Avenue NW

Third Floor

Scaling Up in Development: Lessons from Pratham

In the first Understanding India Seminar of the fall season Rukmini Banerji will discuss insights on the challenges of scaling up in development. Banerji will share lessons from her notable experience, as the Programme Director of Pratham, one of Ind...

Oct

9

9:00—6:30 PM

Center for Global Development

1800 Massachusetts Avenue NW

First Floor Conference Center

How to Spend It (If We Had It): Priorities for Allocating International Climate Change Finance

A Conference Co-Hosted by the Center for Global Development (CGD), the Korean Development Institute (KDI), and the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Mobilizing and allocating finance to address the global public goods di...

Jun

7

10:00—11:30 AM

Westin Georgetown

2350 M Street NW

Washington Ballroom

Indian Democracy's Mid-Life Crises

The Republic of India is the world's most reckless political experiment. It was born amidst a background of partition, civil war, economic scarcity and territorial fragmentation. The decision to yet promote a democratic political system, and promote ...

May

15

12:30—2:00 PM

Center for Global Development

1800 Massachussetts Avenue, NW, Third Floor

India, the World Bank, and the International Development Architecture

Should India, a lower-middle income country that has its own space program and yet is home to more than 400 million people who live on less than $1.25 a day, graduate from IDA, the World Bank’s concessional finance window for the world’s poorest coun...

Mar

15

10:00—11:30 AM

Center for Global Development, 1800 Massachussets Ave, NW, First Floor Conference Center, Washington, DC

Greenprint: A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change

The threat of climate change can only be averted with genuine cooperation between traditional and emerging powers. However, the profound changes in the economic and fiscal situations of the high-income countries, on one hand, and the rapidly-growing ...

Feb

11

2:30—4:00 PM

Center for Global Development, 1800 Massachussets Ave, NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC

The Historical Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in India and China

In his widely-acclaimed 2011 book Origins of Political Order, Fukuyama explores the divergent trajectory of political and institutional development across societies. His new CGD Working Paper "What is Governance?" presents a framework for quantifying...

Feb

1

2:30—4:00 PM

Center for Global Development, 1800 Massachussets Ave, NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC

Renewable Resources Shocks and Conflict in India’s Maoist Belt

India’s prime minister says the Maoist conflict is the biggest internal security challenge in his country’s history. Does environmental degradation play role in the violence? Kishore Gawande and Devesh Kapur will present a paper that uses...

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