CGD Policy Blogs

Stopping the Emerging Markets Contagion Boomerang

11/10/08

The U.S. rescue package is (rightly) focused on shoring up our domestic financial markets, ground zero in the global credit crisis. Even if this effort is successful, the United States and other global financial leaders cannot ignore the impact on emerging markets. As the crisis has now spread to Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere, we need to ensure that all available tools are used so that the downturn doesn't eventually boomerang back to us.

China's ExIm Bank Discloses its Environmental Policy

5/11/07

Administrator

China's Export-Import Bank is a large and growing instrument of China's strategy in boosting trade and investment (and influence) abroad. As Todd Moss and I noted, it is now among the largest export credit agencies in the world, with primary commercial operations in 2005 exceeding those of the U.S., Japan and the UK.

Is Liberia Africa's New Diamond Success Story?

4/30/07

Administrator

Is Liberia Africa's New Diamond Success Story? The UN Security Council has lifted its ban on diamond exports in Liberia, on the grounds that the post-conflict country has made significant progress in establishing necessary internal controls to comply with the Kimberley Process--a mec

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A "Surprise Party" Update: Will the Candidates Surprise Us in 2008?

1/26/07

Sarah Jane Staats

Just after the 2006 midterm elections, I blogged about CGD research that suggested the new split between a Republican president and Democratic Congress would increase pressure on the foreign aid budget. CGD Senior Fellow Todd Moss, author of "The Surprise Party: An Analysis of ODA Flows to Africa" to which I referred, has now updated his data. His new note,"U.S.

Picturing Global Inequality: Some Preliminary Figures

1/4/07

Todd Moss

Thanks to our friend Nick Seaver for posting on the Huffington Post one of the figures we created after playing around with some of the available stats on global income inequality. The idea was to get a very rough sense of what global income distribution looks like: Is it a bell curve? Where might an average American fit?

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Midterm Election Impact: What the Thumpin' Means for Global Development

11/13/06

Sarah Jane Staats

Elections 2006 President Bush called last week’s midterm election results “a thumpin’” as the Democrats took control of both the House and the Senate. Since then, Republicans and Democrats have been promising to work in a “bipartisan way for all Americans.” But what does it mean for global development that the Republicans hold the presidency while the Democrats control the House and Senate?

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China and Africa Love-fest: Chicken Little or Nirvana?

11/1/06

Todd Moss

The flurry of news about China and Africa is reaching a peak as the November 3-5 Beijing Summit gets underway. There is little doubt that effusive pledges of solidarity and good old cash will be forthcoming in abundance. And it is also patently clear that China has every intention of continuing to ramp up its activities in Africa; look no further than China's official "Africa Policy" released last January.

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Poverty is so Hot for Fall (and Why That's a Good Thing)

9/25/06

Lindsay Morgan

Photographed by Michael Dumlao, Produced by Yvette Castro, Styling by Lisa Streeter, hair by Cindy Booth and Shinika Parris, Makeup by Meaghan Ivas: Fair Use under Creative Commons License--Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 When I told my co-workers I was going to an event called "Fashion Fights Poverty" (co-sponsored by the United Nations

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