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Blog Post
April 04, 2016
Maybe it’s some kind of spring fever, but CGD is in events overdrive in the next couple of weeks, spurred on by the World Bank / IMF Spring Meetings, and the plethora of discussions they bring. We are delighted to be pairing up with, and hosting, some big names, and so we thought it would...
Blog Post
February 22, 2016
It is now possible to talk of a day when the number of new infections will be lower than the number of people dying from AIDS — a day when the disease starts shrinking. Ambassador Deborah Birx, US Global AIDS Coordinator, joins me on this week's podcast to discuss that prospect.
Blog Post
February 16, 2016
It’s quite the buzz phrase: results-based development. But what is actually meant by "results"? Dr. Raj Shah, former Administrator of USAID under President Obama, and Michael Gerson, former presidential speechwriter and Assistant for Policy and Strategic Planning under George W....
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December 07, 2015
2015 has been the year we have been reminded that there have been major gains in development in many parts of the world, but that hundreds of millions of people still suffer the dangerous consequences of poverty, including high levels of maternal and infant mortality, hunger, illness caused by lack ...
Blog Post
August 03, 2015
When the next natural disaster strikes, Will MacAskill does not want you to donate to the relief effort. And if a relative dies from a disease, he doesn’t think you should try and raise money for that cause. Rather, he wants you to focus on the "ongoing disasters" that sicken, maim a...
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June 04, 2015
Rajesh Mirchandani moderated a discussion and Q&A with RYOT co-founder David Darg following the screening of three short films: Body Team 12, Baseball in the Time of Cholera, and Nepal Virtual Reality.
Darg spent the last decade as a first responder and frontline c...