Yesterday, CGD's president, Nancy Birdsall testified before a U.S. Congressional committee about globalization and inequality in Latin America. Nancy has written and spoken widely on the topic of global inequality and recently launched a new CGD initiative on the topic.
While most of us were taking a holiday yesterday, Molly Kinder, who previously worked as a program coordinator at CGD on Millions Saved, and is now a graduate student at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, sent the following reflections on Presidents' Day.
Yesterday the United States celebrated Presidents' Day, a holiday which rarely gives reason to pause, beyond perhaps the gratitude for a long weekend. This year, however, I did a double take. The image that Presidents' Day has long evoked in my head -- George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Ronald Reagan -- has recently undergone a makeover and now has a striking new feature: her gender.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just kicked off a new online debate, The Effectiveness of Foreign Aid, with CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet and CGD non-resident fellow William Easterly as discussants. (This is not the first time Easterly and Radelet have debated aid effectiveness online.)
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz spoke to a standing-room-only crowd this morning at a CGD event about his new book Making Globalization Work and his ideas for bringing stability to the international economic system.
Post by Milan Vaishnav* (see his previous post on Bolivia: Democracy, the U.S. and Coca)
Last year at the G8 summit in Gleneagles Scotland, Development had the attention of the world’s richest countries.
Getting people to talk to one another is a good idea. In London this week, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and CGD sponsored a meeting of European researchers and officials to discuss the best way of building evidence about what works in developing country social programs. The participants were concerned that the primary obstacle to making progress was a lack of demand for impact studies in developing countries.
