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Features
The Age of Turbulence and Poor Countries: The Case for MDB Help with Risk Management
U.S. Trade Policy and Global Development (White House and the World Policy Brief)
Bail, Baby, Bail: What General Motors Can Teach Us about Policy DistortionsWhat's wrong with U.S. automakers? Nothing that better price signals couldn't fix, according to CGD senior fellow Vijaya Ramachandran. Ramachandran and her co-bloggers argue that artificially low gasoline prices—and weak fuel-efficiency standards—are behind the collapse of Detroit's Big Three automakers. |
Meet CGD Experts
Visiting FellowNancy Lee is a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development where she is working on a proposal to address constraints to growth and income convergence in the Western Hemisphere through regional integration. She will shortly return to the U.S. Treasury where she has served as deputy assistant secretary for Europe, Eurasia and the Western Hemisphere, director of the Offices of Central and Eastern Europe and of Mideast and Central Asia, and deputy director of the Office of Asian and Near East Nations. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Tufts University. Selected Works |
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The global financial crisis and economic slowdown are subjecting poor countries to increased financial, price, and output volatility. How can the multilateral development banks help? A new CGD brief by visiting fellow Nancy Lee, non-resident fellow Guillermo Perry, and CGD president Nancy Birdsall makes the case for a broad range of new and expanded activities to help developing countries manage risk.
Many Americans see trade openness as a threat. Yet access to rich-country markets is crucial for poor people in developing countries to improve their lives. In a new CGD brief based on her essay in The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President, senior fellow Kimberly Elliott suggests a trade policy approach that would address Americans’ concerns and still be pro-poor. One ingredient: treat market access for the world’s poorest countries as a development issue, not trade policy.