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CGD in the News
March 18, 2014
As Washington wonders how to encourage democratic reform in North Korea, Burma, and Iran and how to shore up new democracies in the Middle East and Africa, it seems clear what not to do: invasion. On measures of civil and political rights, countries we have invaded (Afghanistan, Iraq) are ...
CGD in the News
March 13, 2014
When Americans think about private education, what likely comes to mind are posh-sounding names like Milton or Collegiate, where the elites of Boston and Manhattan -- for the low, low price of $40,000 a year -- send their offspring to give them a small leg up in the race to Harvard or...
CGD in the News
November 06, 2006
Research fellow David Roodman's latest publication, Microfinance as Business (co-authored with Uzma Qureshi), is discussed in this posting on Salon.com by Andrew Leonard. The article focuses on the pros and cons of micro-finance for development.
From the article:
For a couple of weeks now, I've be...