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Dec 22, 2009

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Diego Hidalgo Wins 2009 Commitment to Development Award

Diego Hidalgo Schnur, a Spanish philanthropist, academic, and entrepreneur, is the winner of the 2009 Commitment to Development Award. Hidalgo's career reflects his resolute dedication to helping the world's poorest people; he is the founder or key sponsor of numerous organizations committed to promoting development and democracy across the globe. The award is sponsored annually by CGD and Foreign Policy magazine.

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What's Hot and What's Not in Global Development for 2010

Farewell 2009! Welcome 2010! Knowing that CGD's fabulous readers will want to be au courant before venturing out to their year-end holiday parties, Sarah Jane Staats, CGD's director of policy outreach, offers this handy crib sheet, a must-have for in-the-know developmentistas eager to avoid the humiliating faux pas of using last year's buzz words. Don't leave home without it!

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Girls Count, So Why Don't We Count Girls?

"Basic information is missing about girls' health conditions, use of health and other social services, risks at home, school, and elsewhere," writes CGD vice president Ruth Levine, the co-author of two influential reports on adolescent girls. "At nearly every public forum on adolescent girls, someone stands up and says that they are trying to do more--but there just isn't enough data," she adds. The new Coalition for Adolescent Girls is campaigning to fix this problem.

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NEW FROM CGD

Aid, Dutch Disease, and Manufacturing Growth - Working Paper 196 12/18/2009
Intellectual Property Rights and Climate Change: Principles for Innovation and Access to Low-Carbon Technology 12/11/2009
It's One Climate Policy World Out There--Almost - Working Paper 195 12/07/2009
Introduction to Microfinance for Development (Syllabus) 12/07/2009
Partnerships with the Private Sector in Health 12/04/2009

Recent blog posts

Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Blog

MCC Answers More of Your Selection Questions 12/15/2009
It's Official -- $1.1 billion for the MCC 12/14/2009
MCC FY10 Selection Round: A New CEO, No New Countries, but Second Compacts Enter the Arena 12/14/2009

Global Health Policy Blog

Girls Count, So Why Don't We Count Girls? 12/22/2009
Dispute over Pneumococcal Vaccine Initiative: A Response 12/18/2009
Johns Hopkins Makes a New Commitment to Vaccine Access 12/14/2009

Views from the Center Blog

Godot Actually Made It to Copenhagen ... and Nothing Happened. Now What? 12/22/2009
What's Hot and What's Not in Global Development for 2010 12/21/2009
The Development-Counterterrorism Front: Mali 12/21/2009

David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog

When Socially Responsible Investing Isn't 12/20/2009
Weekly Tweets for 2009-12-18 12/18/2009
Old Man Schumpeter 12/17/2009

The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence (Wall Street Journal) 12/20/2009
Coverage of CGD's Contribution to Nick Kristof's "Win a Trip" Contest (New York Times & On the Ground Blog) 12/13/2009
Will Rice Market Go Up in Flames Again? (The Philippine Star) 12/10/2009
Dispute over Pneumococcal Vaccine Initiative (Lancet) 12/05/2009
Perhaps Microfinance Isn't Such a Big Deal after All (Financial Times) 12/05/2009

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Sarah Jane Staats

Sarah Jane is responsible for engaging the development policy community -- especially senior staff in the U.S. Congress, the administration, and policy experts in leading development advocacy NGOs -- in the Center's research and other programs. She ensures that the Center's research and analysis is readily available to these and other influential audiences to increase CGD's impact and influence.