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Ruth Levine Named to Senior Role at USAID

Mar 2, 2010

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Ten Ideas for a 21st-Century Global Development Agenda

As we approach the final stretch of the Millennium Development Goals period, many people are wondering, what’s next? CGD president Nancy Birdsall offers a list of 10 actionable ideas for global prosperity.

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Ruth Levine Named to Senior Position at USAID

Ruth Levine, a CGD senior fellow and vice president for programs and operations, has been named to a leadership position at USAID. She is the third senior CGD staff member to join the U.S. government this year.

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Getting Aid Right in Northern Uganda

Visiting fellow Julius Kiiza, a professor at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, discusses the prospects for aid effectiveness and development in Uganda’s troubled north on this week’s Global Prosperity Wonkcast.

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Julius Kiiza

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Julius Kiiza is an IDRC visiting fellow at the Center and teaches political economy, public policy and development studies in the department of political science at Makerere University (Uganda). He holds a Bachelors degree from Makerere, a First Class Master of Public Policy from the University of Sydney (Australia), and a Ph.D. from the same university. Kiiza did his postdoctoral studies at Cambridge University and was a visiting fellow at Dickinson College in 2006. He has completed several research projects funded by Global Development Network (GDN), the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER), DFID, and other agencies.