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WORKING PAPERS
August 28, 2006
The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) seek to ensure that all children complete primary school by 2015. But school completion rates don't tell us how much--or how little--the kids actually learn. This new working paper co-authored by CGD non-resident fellow Lant Pritchett shows that even in cou...
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July 10, 2006
As leaders from the world's most powerful nations prepare to gather in St. Petersburg, Russia, this weekend, observers with even a modicum of memory could be forgiven for wondering whether the leaders suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder. After all, it was only one year ago that G-8 leaders met in...
New from CGD
March 13, 2006
Jeffrey Sachs spoke at a CGD event about the Millennium Villages, which his Earth Institute at Columbia University describes as a "bottom-up approach to enabling villages in developing countries to lift themselves out of the poverty trap." Event transcripts and video now online.
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