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July 19, 2013
Since the overthrow of Egypt’s democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi earlier this month, US government officials have made painstaking efforts to avoid calling the ouster a military coup d’état. Why the semantic sensitivity? Because according to the FY2012 Co...
Blog Post
July 17, 2013
CGD has just posted a policy paper by Sarah Dykstra and me on Millennium Development Goal 8 (that would be the one on a “global partnership for development”) and lessons for post-2015. It is an updated version of a paper we submitted to the High-Level Panel on post-2015 (available here) ...
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July 17, 2013
The latest news from FORMA demonstrates the power of global and regional economic cycles as drivers of deforestation. My previous post highlighted the rapid growth and spread of forest clearing during the first phase of the global economic recovery. Fortunately, new c...
Blog Post
July 15, 2013
Success has many fathers. So too does the administration’s new vision for US-Africa engagement. At a packed CGD event with USAID administrator Rajiv Shah on President Obama’s recent trip to Africa and the new Power Africa energy initiative, CGD president Nancy Birdsall called it &l...