CGD in the News

In an interview with the Voice of America, CGD vice president and senior fellow Ruth Levine recommends a doubling of the global health commitment from $7.5 billion to $15 billion in the Obama Administration.

The New Republic quotes CGD senior fellow David Wheeler on Obama's proposed cap-and-trade policy.

Immigrants are an Engine of Prosperity By Michael Clemens

Imagine telling Americans in 1900 that over the 20th century, about 60 million immigrants —- that is, 80 percent of the population at the time —- were going to come and stay in the United States. Tens of millions more were going to come for a while but not stay. Many at the time considered the country “full” and would have feared that such an enormous influx, combined with the vast financial crisis we were to experience a few decades later, would harm American prosperity.

Yet all of these things happened, and here we are today: even in the midst of new financial turmoil, still the richest nation the world has ever seen.

The Washington Post Blog quotes CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet on reforming U.S. foreign assistance.