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Financial Crisis Lessons from Latin America

Latin America, once a source of global financial instability, weathered the 2008–09 financial crisis remarkably well, reaping the benefits of more than a decade of policy reforms. In a new working paper, CGD senior fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez identifies eight lessons. Among them: design financial regulations based on national needs, not the needs of industrial countries.

A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development

CGD research fellow Michael Clemens ignited a storm of controversy with his proposal to create a new Golden Door Visa for victims of the Haitian quake and others in very poor countries. In a recently published working paper and a related video inspired by the TED Talks, he argues that labor mobility is the most effective path out of poverty—and the single biggest development idea no one has really tried.

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PopPov Research Network Holds Fourth Annual Meeting in Cape Town

The fourth annual conference of the Population and Poverty (PopPov) Research Network in Cape Town brought together the world’s top researchers on population and development. Rachel Nugent, CGD deputy director of global health, coordinates the network that grew out of a 2005 CGD working group and now includes 60 projects and more than 200 researchers.

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