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January 16, 2010
CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet prepared this response to questions raised by U.S. Sen. Richard Richard Lugar during a June 12, 2007 hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Development, Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs, and International Environmental Protection. Ra...
January 15, 2010
CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet, co-chair of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, shares a surprising new analysis of U.S. aid spending (it has fallen sharply in the past two years!) and explains how the next administration can bolster America’s security and reputation through better investme...
January 15, 2010
Edward W. Scott Jr., the founding chairman of the Board of the Center for Global Development, recently visited Liberia together with members of his family and a group that included CGD board member Belinda Stronach. It was Scott’s first visit but far from his first involvement with Liberia. In 2006,...
January 15, 2010
As the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign season heats up, candidates are defining their views on how to build a better, safer, more prosperous America and world. CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet tells us about Impact '08, a campaign launched by the Center for U.S. Global Engagement to inspire the 200...
January 15, 2010
In its first four years, the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has become one of the most important aid agencies in the world, committing some $5.5 billion in grants to more than 130 countries. Next week the Global Fund will select a new executive director. CGD senior fellow Steve R...
CGD in the News
December 30, 2009
The Group of Eight’s debt forgiveness deal is an historic agreement that could end two decades of debt problems for 18 poor countries, with another nine waiting in the wings. Although the financial benefits are small, the deal forgives 100 per cent of the debts owed to the World Bank, International ...
CGD in the News
December 30, 2009
The inauguration this week of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as president of Liberia could provide the war-torn nation a desperately needed fresh start. In a Boston Globe op-ed, CGD's Steve Radelet and Jeremy Weinstein describe the huge challenges facing President Sirleaf and urge the U.S. to help demobilize...