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Recent CommentaryCGD Migration Data Report Card05/25/2009Letter to IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler01/21/2009In this January 2004 letter, CGD president Nancy Birdsall writes to IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler to applaud the work of the then-new Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) and to encourage his active endorsement of two of IEO recommendations for IMF management and staff. La Crisis Financiera Internacional (Slide Show Commentary)07/29/2008 Liliana Rojas-SuarezWorld Bank Power Projects: Crossroads on Renewable Energy (Slide Show Commentary)05/09/2008 David WheelerDavid Wheeler offers commentary on slides that illustrate his forthcoming paper with Kevin Ummel on a dynamic strategy for developing solar thermal power as a cost-competitive alternative to coal-fired power. They have presented versions of these slides at a number of conferences and policy workshops during the past two months. This is a summary of the forthcoming paper and its conclusions. Foreign Aid: Diagnosis without Direction10/01/2007 Nancy BirdsallIn a recent review of William Easterly's The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, published in the SAIS Review, CGD president Nancy Birdsall applauds Easterly's diagnosis of the problem with foreign aid: donors favor big, comprehensive, visible projects rather than trying to solve narrow, immediate problems. Easterly proposes a two-fold solution: remodel the entire system to raise accountability and refocus aid toward smaller, specialized programs. Birdsall argues against reinventing the entire aid system, in place of reforming aspects of it to resemble Easterly's model. Global Fund Grant Programs: An Analysis of Evaluation07/03/2007 Steve RadeletThe Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has quickly become one of the world's largest funders of health programs. In this article, originally published in The Lancet, Steve Radelet and Bilal Siddi analyze 140 program grants evaluated by the Global Fund and the association between the programs' evaluation scores and various characteristics of the grants themselves. Among their findings: AIDS and TB programs, and programs implemented by civil society/private sector recipients, tend to have higher scores. The New Global Slave Trade [Foreign Affairs]11/16/2006 Ethan KapsteinThe New Global Slave Trade, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2006. This article is reprinted by permission of FOREIGN AFFAIRS (www.foreignaffairs.org), Copyright 2006 by the Council on Foreign Relations. Following the Money in Global Health01/18/2006 Ruth LevineThis article originally appeared in Global HealthLink "Resource tracking" is a hot new topic in global health circles. Far from being of interest only to accountants and statisticians, data on the flow of money – how much, from whom and for what – is the subject of intense debates within the donor community, the policy community in developing countries and civil society "watchdog" groups. Controversy over World Bank trade & poverty estimates12/19/2005 William R. ClineThree years ago the World Bank said that freeing international trade of all barriers and subsidies would lift 320 million people above the $2 a day poverty line by 2015. But new World Bank projections emphasizing $1 a day poverty and based on new data and methods put the number at just 32 million people. CGD/IIE Senior Fellow William R. Cline, author of Trade Policy and Global Poverty, has been examining the Bank's new calculations and argues that the first estimate was closer to the truth. A Hong Kong Declaration12/19/2005 Kimberly Ann ElliottTrade ministers in Hong Kong just barely managed to meet the low expectations they set for themselves, according to Kimberly Elliott, a CGD/IIE joint fellow. "This means that the negotiations still have a chance to reach a meaningful agreement in 2006, but the pace and the willingness to make politically difficult concessions will have to increase substantially," she said. |
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SpeechesForeign Policy Implications of U.S. Efforts to Address the International Financial Crisis: TARP, TALF, and the G-20 Plan -- Testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade06/10/2009 Nancy Birdsall Congressional Hearing: Foreign Policy Implications of U.S. Efforts to Address the International Financial Crisis: TARP, TALF and the G-20 PlanCGD president Nancy Birdsall testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade as Congress considers how best to support the spirit of the G-20 commitments and global economic recovery. Capital Loss and Corruption: The Example of Nigeria -- Testimony before the House Financial Services Committee05/19/2009 Nuhu RibaduCGD visiting fellow Ruhu Ribadu testifies before the House Financial Services Committee about the effects of corruption on democracy, global markets, and the poor in developing countries. He suggests how the United States could help put an end to corrupt practices. Implications of the G-20 Leaders Summit for -- Testimony for the House Financial Services Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade05/13/2009 Nancy BirdsallCGD president Nancy Birdsall testifies before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade about the implications of the recent G-20 meeting in London. She reiterates the need for the United States to support the IMF and push for its reform. |