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December 10, 2007
WASHINGTON,D.C.(December 10,2007)- Global Witness, a small U.K.-based NGO that has crusaded to stop the plunder of rain forests in Cambodia and Burma and helped to bring the problem of conflict diamonds in Africa to the world's attention, is the winner of the 2007 Commitment to Development "Ideas in...
CGD in the News
December 10, 2007
The USA Today cites CGD work on CO2 Emissions in an article about how counties can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
From the article:
"Power plants and other industrial facilities in the U.S. released more than 2.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air this year, according to estimates compi...
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December 10, 2007
The current share of women in the world's international migrant population is close to one half. Despite the great number of female migrants, there has until recently been a striking lack of gender analysis in the economic literature on international migration and development. A book just published ...
December 10, 2007
Each year the Center for Global Development and Foreign Policy magazine present the Commitment to Development Award to honor an individual or organization from the rich world that has made a significant contribution to changing attitudes and policies towards the developing world. CGD president Nancy...
REPORTS
December 10, 2007
International corporations interested in joining the fight against global poverty can choose from a wide range of options, according to a new CGD report released last week. The report, Joining the Fight Against Global Poverty: A Menu for Corporate Engagement, suggests six approaches for corporations...
WORKING PAPERS
December 10, 2007
The argument about whether foreign aid "works" rages on. Recently, Paul Collier sought a practical middle path between William Easterly's development pessimism and Jeffrey Sach's development boosterism. How can smart people draw such contradictory conclusions from the same data? This new working pap...