Global Development: Views from the Center

Global Development: Views from the Center features posts from Nancy Birdsall and her colleagues at the Center for Global Development about innovative, practical policy responses to poverty and inequality in an ever-more globalized world.

From March Madness to April Anxiety: The WTO Leadership Contest Heats Up

3/29/13

Kimberly Ann Elliott

The madness of the US NCAA basketball championship is in full swing and getting lots of attention in Washinton, but a globally more significant competition is entering the final stages in Geneva. Just as 68 US college basketball teams were winnowed to a sweet sixteen, and soon to an elite eight, and so on, nine candidates for director-general (DG) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will soon be trimmed to a fab five, then a dynamic duo, and, by May 31, a champion to lead the world trade system.

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Southern Voices in the Post-2015 Debate

3/26/13

Charles Kenny

This is a joint post with Ted Collins.

Since the UN’s post-2015 development agenda focuses on prioritizing progress in poorer countries, you’d hope that developing country institutions would be heavily involved. But are they?

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Render unto Caesar

3/25/13

Alex Cobham

An obscure reference to reforming the taxation of multinationals in the UK budget speech might be more important for developing countries than the big increase in aid that was announced at the same time. Mandatory ‘combined reporting’ by multinationals could enable countries to tax multinationals properly.

Agriculture Innovation in Action: What’s Next for the AgResults Initative?

3/25/13

Kimberly Ann Elliott

The first three pilots under the AgResults initiative announced at the G20 meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico, last year are about to become operational.

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Bob Geldof: From Activist to Investor

3/22/13

Owen Barder

Bob Geldof is the latest guest on Development Drums talking about about his work in development over three decades. Beware: the language is colourfully and characteristically explicit in places. You can listen to the 35 minute version here, or listen to the entire extended interview.

Check Our New Togs!

3/22/13

Lawrence MacDonald

After months of planning and preparation, we at CGD launched a newly revamped website yesterday. I’m feeling pretty pleased and hope that you and other friends and followers of CGD will like it, too. Merriam-Webster defines “togs” as:

a set of clothes and accessories for a specified use <riding togs>

I think new togs is fitting term for our freshly revamped website because we are offering much more than a fresh coat of paint.

African Economists Care About Jobs; Non-Africans Care About Institutions?

3/22/13

Justin Sandefur

There's a lot of chatter in the blogosphere about Westerners' perceptions of Africa, and how poorly they align with Africans' own views of the challenges their societies face.

This week I'm in Oxford, for the annual conference on "Economic Development in Africa" at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) . The CSAE conference is unique among top-tier development econ conferences in that it brings together a huge number of scholars based in African universities and research institutes -- as well as people like me, non-Africans working on the economics of Africa.

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Britain Joins the G-0.7

3/20/13

Owen Barder

The budget presented today by Britain's ruling coalition confirmed that the UK will meet the 0.7% target on foreign assistance in 2013. This means that Britain will join Sweden, Norway, Luxembourg and Denmark as a member of the small club of countries which meet the UN target - first agreed in 1970 - of spending 0.7% of Gross National Income (GNI) on Official Development Assistance (ODA).

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‘Exploitation’ Relative to What? Guest Work Visas Are Massively Beneficial to Foreign Workers

3/18/13

Michael Clemens

Migrant advocates rarely say a good word about guest-work visas. Many harshly criticize the conditions and wages of authorized US guest workers as economic exploitation comparable to slavery. Often that’s where their comments end.

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The Rush for the Entrances in Myanmar

3/14/13

David Roodman

Over the decade, donors have publicly declared that they would improve how they operate in order to make aid work better. They would coordinate better, let recipient countries take more ownership of project design, and so on. Ten years and ten days ago, there was the Rome Declaration.

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Global Development: Views from the Center

From March Madness to April Anxiety: The WTO Leadership Contest Heats Up

Southern Voices in the Post-2015 Debate

Render unto Caesar

Agriculture Innovation in Action: What’s Next for the AgResults Initative?

Bob Geldof: From Activist to Investor

Check Our New Togs!

African Economists Care About Jobs; Non-Africans Care About Institutions?

Britain Joins the G-0.7

‘Exploitation’ Relative to What? Guest Work Visas Are Massively Beneficial to Foreign Workers

The Rush for the Entrances in Myanmar

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