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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. Interviews with EBRD Candidates - May 14 CGD Europe Asks: Who Should Be the EBRD’s Next President? - May 10 Africa’s Child Health Miracle: The Biggest, Best Story in Development - May 4 A Review of the U.S. Government’s Review of Its Haiti Quake Response - May 1 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. Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone? – Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie Walz - May 15 Leapfrogging Technology, the Case for Biometrics: Alan Gelb - May 8 Latin American Lessons from the 2008 Financial Crisis – Liliana Rojas-Suarez - May 1 U.S. Support for Sustainable Energy for All—Nigel Purvis - Apr 23 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. West Africa: The Demographic Dividend Is Not a Given - May 15 The Health Aid Fungibility Debate: Don’t Believe Either Side - May 14 Results-Based Aid in Liberia: USAID Forward (and one step back) - May 11 How Does HIV/AIDS Funding Affect a Country’s Health System? - May 10 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. How Aid Dependent Is the Man in the Moon? - May 15 Getting Greater Value from Post-Quake Aid to Haiti - May 14 Moving On - May 14 Lesson from Mali’s Debacle: Time to Rethink Counterterrorism Cooperation - May 10 More Posts
David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog Draft chapters, burning questions, useful sources. Welcome Coverage, but Not Quite Scrutiny, of KGFS - May 14 Yunus-Bashing Escalates - May 11 Weekly Tweets for 2012-05-11 - May 11 Ripost to Rupert - May 8 More Posts