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Blog Post
December 07, 2007
This is a joint posting with Peter Timmer.
This past weekend, the New York Times published a provocative story titled "Ending Famine, Simply By Ignoring the Experts" (login required), about how Malawi has rescued itself from endless cycles of famine. The Times argued that Malawi accomplished this s...
CGD in the News
December 07, 2007
The New York Times quotes CGD Senior Policy Analyst, Sheila Herrling, on the four-year-old Millennium Challenge Corporation.
From the article:
"Sheila Herrling, who follows the agency at the Center for Global Development, a nonprofit research group in Washington, says there are understandable reas...
Dec
14
2007
12:00—2:00 PM
December 06, 2007
President Kikwete will offer his perspective on infrastructure obstacles to growth in Tanzania, including how the donor community, private sector, and African governments can work together to find new and innovative ways to bring power and roads to Africa. The president’s remarks will be followed by...
Dec
17
2007
12:30—2:00 PM
December 05, 2007
Abstract: This paper argues that there are two major factors underlying improved global health outcomes. These are, first, the discovery of cheap (and some free) technologies that can dramatically improve health outcomes and, second, the adoption of these technologies thanks to the spread of knowle...
Dec
11
2007
12:30—1:30 PM
December 04, 2007
Abstract: Analyses of how coveted central government resources in Africa are transferred to different regions within a country have shown widespread patronage, ethnic cronyism and pork barrel politics. Politics as the basis of relative development between tribes, classes and geographic regions elici...
December 04, 2007
The security component of the CDI compares rich countries on how they affect the developing world in the military realm, counting such factors as participating in internationally backed peace- and war-making operations, and exporting arms to dictatorships. Here, you can pull up reports by country on...