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CGD Policy Blogs

Views from the Center Posts by CGD experts about pressing development policy issues and practical new ideas for reducing global poverty and inequality. Barder on Post-Bureaucratic Aid . . . and the Complexity Motive Behind Cash on Delivery - Feb 10 Africa on K Street: Lobbying Is Not Restricted to the Developed World - Feb 10 Universal Joy As a New Goal for the Millennium? - Feb 9 Birth of Immigration Fiction: Watch a UK Minister Create an Economic Myth about Migration from Developing Countries - Feb 7 More Posts		Global Prosperity Wonkcast Lawrence MacDonald, CGD vice president for communications and policy outreach, interviews a CGD expert in this weekly Podcast. The blog offers a short text summary. Implementing Oil-to-Cash – Todd Moss - Feb 6 What’s Driving Deforestation? Surprise Findings—David Wheeler - Jan 30 Global Health and the New Bottom Billion – Amanda Glassman - Jan 23 What the U.S. Can Do in Pakistan Now – Milan Vaishnav and Danny Cutherell - Jan 18 More Posts
Global Health Policy CGD experts discuss such issues as health financing, drug resistance, clinical trials, vaccine development, HIV/AIDS, and health-related foreign assistance. Malaria Estimate Sausages by WHO and IHME - Feb 9 We Quantified the Quality of Health Aid! (So What?) - Feb 8 Saving Lives by Counting Deaths - Feb 6 Why a Banker Is Good for the Global Fund - Jan 30 More Posts		Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance The Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Blog complements CGD's Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance initiative. Both are for professionals interested in tracking the U.S. Foreign Assistance and its impact on developing countries. Will the President’s 2013 Budget Request Show More Focus and Selectivity? - Feb 9 USAID Needs to Develop Guidelines for Trilateral Cooperation - Feb 8 “Say What You’re Doing”: USAID-Pakistan’s New Website - Feb 7 Where Oh Where Has the GHI Gone? The Whole of Government Approach Hangs in the Balance - Jan 31 More Posts
David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog Draft chapters, burning questions, useful sources. Roodman Reviews Role Reversal Revisited - Feb 10 Weekly Tweets for 2012-02-10 - Feb 10 Debate Recording Up - Feb 3 Amount × Collection Practices = Debt Burden - Feb 3 More Posts