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Nov
29
2023
HYBRID
Washington, DC
9:00—2:00 PM ET / 14:00—18:45 GMT
October 25, 2023
Join us for this year's 9th Annual Birdsall House Conference on Gender Equality, where we will shine a spotlight on the theme, "Women on the Rise: Breaking Barriers in International Financial Institutions." This conference promises to be a thought-provoking exploration of the challenges women face, ...
Apr
22
2021
8:30—10:00 AM ET
April 16, 2021
Join CGD’s Masood Ahmed for a discussion with Mark Lowcock, outgoing UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, to discuss his new and practical proposal to hold the humanitarian system independently accountable for delivering what people in crisis actually want. Human...
Blog Post
March 07, 2018
On International Women’s Day it is right to celebrate the huge advances in women’s rights during our own lifetimes. In almost every country in the world, women are closer to achieving equality in economic and social activity. However, even as we celebrate progress, we cannot lose sight o...
Blog Post
January 08, 2018
Here at CGD, we’re always working on new ideas to stay on top of the rapidly changing global development landscape. Whether it’s examining new technologies with the potential to alleviate poverty, presenting innovative ways to finance global health, assessing changing leadership at inter...
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November 09, 2017
On December 7th, academics, private sector representatives, and policymakers turn to an issue that affects women in rich and poor countries alike: the ability to make informed, voluntary, and autonomous choices about childbearing, and the implications of reproductive choice as a lever to expand wome...
Dec
7
2017
9:30—5:30 PM
October 27, 2017
The Birdsall House Conference Series on Women seeks to identify and bring attention to leading research and scholarly findings on women’s empowerment in the fields of development economics, behavioral economics, and political economy. On December 7th, academics, private sector representatives, and p...