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Jan
13
2009
2:00—3:30 PM
December 31, 2008
Are policies to encourage biofuels part of the solution to global warming? Or do their environmental costs outweigh their benefits? IFPRI senior research fellow Antoine Bouet uses a global trade model to examine the impact of trade, subsidy, and mandate policies that the European Union uses or could...
Jan
12
2009
12:30—2:00 PM
December 31, 2008
The Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a multisectoral initiative designed to help resource rich developing countries improve their governance. Although adherence is voluntary, participating governments are required to publish resource revenues and firms operating in these countr...
Jan
13
2009
10:00—11:30 AM
December 29, 2008
Join us for a conversation with Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO John Danilovich as he prepares to pass stewardship over the MCC to a new Administration. In his introductory remarks and subsequent dialogue with CGD Senior Fellow Steve Radelet, Ambassador Danilovich will reflect upon his r...
Jan
8
2009
3:15—4:15 PM
December 23, 2008
The multifaceted nature of current and emerging global security challenges requires a judicious and balanced use of development, diplomacy and defense--the 3Ds. United States' leadership in ensuring the success of global efforts to address poverty, protect the environment and safeguard human rights ...
Dec
10
2008
3:00—5:00 PM
December 08, 2008
The Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) is a global network of policy makers, researchers and civil society organizations brought together by the World Health Organization (WHO) to give support in tackling the social causes of poor health and avoidable health inequalities (health...
Dec
11
2008
10:00—11:30 AM
December 05, 2008
During the recent campaign, President-elect Barack Obama pledged to "double our annual investments in foreign assistance to $50 billion by 2012 and ensure that these new resources are invested wisely with strong accountability measures and directed towards strategic goals."
In his statement on th...
Dec
16
2008
2:00—4:00 PM
December 03, 2008
The last decade has seen a growing number of efforts to measure the quality of foreign aid, including part of CGD's own Commitment to Development Index (CDI). This event will showcase three new projects of this kind—projects that dramatize how the quality of aid matters as well the quantity, that po...
Dec
15
2008
4:00—5:30 PM
December 02, 2008
Countries have tough choices to make over investing in different types of infrastructure. Do schools come first? What about irrigation and other agricultural needs so that populations can be fed? And they can't ignore the importance of roads, bridges, and other transportation in facilitating trade a...
Dec
10
2008
10:00—11:30 AM
December 01, 2008
Why do some young democracies fail? Drawing on a unique data set of every democratization episode since 1960, The Fate of Young Democracies explores the underlying reasons for backsliding and reversal in the world’s fledgling democracies and offers proposals for ways that the international community...
Dec
4
2008
10:30—12:00 PM
November 24, 2008
Among emerging markets, Latin America is the most financially open region in the world: there are few restrictions on international capital flows and in most countries foreign banks dominate the banking system. While countries have benefitted from capital inflows, especially foreign direct investmen...