CGD in the News
Development Finance in Africa (Economist)
The Economist features the launch of the China in Africa project by the Center for Global Development and AidData.
Drug Donations are Great, but Should Big Pharma be Calling the Shots? (The Guardian)
Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow Amanda Glassman is quoted in The Guardian on financing pharmaceuticals and vaccines in the developing world.
Improving Transparency in Aid and Emergency Relief (Deutsche Welle)
Senior Fellow Vijaya Ramachandran is interviewed about her brief on Haiti on the German radio outlet Deutsche Welle.
Identification, Please (Foreign Policy)
Alan Gelb was mentioned in a Foreign Policy article on biometrics
Risking the Dog for the Tail (Newsweek)
Nancy Birdsall's piece on security-focused aid was featured in Newsweek.
The World Bank, Stuck In the Mud [Washington Post]
In this Washington Post editorial Sebastian Mallaby references a new working paper by CGD: What Have IMF Programs With Low-Income Countries Assumed About Aid Flows?
How Much AIDS Vaccine Do Poor Countries Really Want?
CGD's Global Health Forecasting Working Group is cited in this Scientific American article about finding ways to better understand the "demand" for medicines in the Developing world.
Bush Has Quietly Tripled Aid to Africa [WaPo]
Senior fellow Steve Radelet is quoted in this Washington Post article highlighing the Bush Adminisatration's major increases in aid to Africa.
U.S. Fund OKs Aid for El Salvador, Expands List
Senior fellow Steve Radelet was interviewed in this Reuters article about the Millennium Challenge Corporation's announcement of five new compact countries.
Board Stymied on Picking New AIDS, TB Chief
Senior fellow Steve Radelet was quoted in this article about the decision of the Global Fund's board not to select a new Executive Director during their recent talks in Guatemala City.
From the article:
Steven Radelet, a senior fellow at the Washington-based think tank Center for Global Development, which recently produced a report on new challenges facing the fund, said the failure to elect a new leader "is not good for the organization," but added that "trying to force through one candidate wouldn't be good, either." "I think it's a good process in that they clearly give voice to developing countries in a much stronger way" than the World Bank or International Monetary Fund, he said.
Read CGD's latest report Challenges and Opportunities for the New Executive Director of the Global Fund: Seven Essential Tasks