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Jun
8
2022
12:00—1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
June 02, 2022
Developing countries have made tremendous progress in reducing poverty in the last fifty years, supported by international cooperation and more open societies and economies. However, in recent years, nationalist and populist movements as well as geopolitical fractures have hindered multilateralism, ...
Jul
20
2015
3:00—5:00 PM
July 01, 2015
Why development matters more than ever in US foreign policy and what the next administration can do about it. The panel discussion marked the launch of CGD’s 2016 presidential campaign briefing book The White House and the World: Practical Proposals on Global Development for the Next US Presid...
Apr
28
2015
4:00—7:00 PM
April 13, 2015
On Tuesday, April 28th, the Center for Global Development hosted Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of the New America Foundation, as the speaker for the annual Richard H. Sabot lecture. Dr. Slaughter’s talk was entitled "Horizons and Boundaries: What Technology Can Do to Advance Dev...
CGD in the News
December 18, 2014
From the start, Rajiv Shah was Obama’s man to lead U.S. foreign aid efforts, and Nancy Birdsall, founding president of the Center for Global Development underscored how the outgoing USAID chief was a “major force” behind President Barack Obama’s goal to eliminate global extre...
Oct
10
2014
9:45—12:30 PM
September 29, 2014
The Center for Global Development (CGD) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will hold two thematically-linked, consecutive events.
We will begin with the release of the 2014 OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) annual flagship publication, the Development Co...
CGD in the News
July 18, 2014
A new report by top Washington think tanks finds no measurable advance in reducing waste and duplication in foreign aid programmes, nor any improvement in how aid was distributed in the years from 2008 through 2012, the most recent period for which data were available.
“On the one hand there ...
CGD in the News
June 09, 2014
During the past two decades, something unexpected happened in the field of development economics. Researchers got out from behind their desks to figure out why, after billions of dollars had been spent on foreign aid, so many poor people were no less poor. They began talking with those they were try...
CGD in the News
March 24, 2014
But despite its detractors, conditional cash transfers quickly became the hot new approach in development.
One of the early champions of the approach was Nancy Birdsall, the president of the Center for Global Development who argued in 2004 that, '"these programs are as close as you can com...
New from CGD
September 17, 2012
Integration of the global economy has outpaced the ability of international institutions to address key market failures—inequality, volatility, and inadequate provision of global public goods—undermining the prospects for inclusive and sustainable growth, CGD president Nancy Birdsall sai...