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New from CGD
December 19, 2005
Zimbabwe is in a state of virtual economic collapse. It faces grave public health concerns and even basic services have stalled. This Working Paper by Todd Moss and Stewart Patrick urges the international community to begin planning now for the narrow window of opportunity a post-Mugabe transition w...
BRIEFS
December 08, 2005
In this CGD Brief, Todd Moss and Vijaya Ramachandran analyze the survey results of 300-400 manufacturing firms in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Their main finding? Foreign firms perform better than local firms in generating jobs, increasing the productivty of their workers, and in skills transfer.
Dec
15
2005
3:00—5:00 PM
December 02, 2005
Joao Saldanha, Director of the Timor Institute of Development Studies in Dili, East Timor, will speak about the reconstruction efforts in Aceh and East Timor at this CGD seminar. Peter Timmer, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, will chair.
May
9
2005
IN PERSON
Washington, DC
9:00—5:00 PM
December 02, 2005
CGD co-sponsored a Policy Roundtable on Economic Development and Population Dynamics. The roundtable brought together leading policymakers from around the world, including many from Sub-Saharan Africa, to provide consultation on the draft Working Group report and discuss future research and policy d...
New from CGD
November 28, 2005
In November's LatinFinance CGD Senior Fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez suggests modifying Latin American financial regulations to reduce the negative impact of volatile capital flows. She argues that regulators should shift their attention from aggregate measures, such as the growth of bank loans, to an ...
New from CGD
November 14, 2005
CGD Senior Fellow Maureen Lewis recently returned from two weeks in East Asia evaluating the international community's response to the threat of a global epidemic of avian flu. In this Q&A she discusses her main findings and suggests that rich countries provide technical assistance and funds to ...