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The United States Can Give Better Aid to Haiti

4/6/10

This commentary also appeared on The Huffington Post and Global Post

Last week at a United Nations conference, donors pledged more than $10 billion to finance reconstruction and development investments in Haiti. The United States promised a hefty $1.15 billion.

But pledging money is the easy part. The United States, the lead donor and friend with the greatest interest in Haiti's future development, can do much more, in two ways: its own aid programs can be more effective; and it can take steps beyond aid that are far more critical to long-run prosperity for Haiti's people.

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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Three Cheers for John Edwards: First Global Poverty Proposal of the '08 Presidential Campaigns. Who's Next?

3/16/07

Sarah Jane Staats

John Edwards released the first global poverty proposal of the '08 presidential campaigns yesterday. In "Restoring America's Moral Leadership by Fighting Worldwide Poverty", Edwards' campaign says:

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Climate Change and Criminal Liability

3/12/07

David Wheeler

In U.S. jurisprudence, the standard for conviction in a criminal proceeding is "beyond a reasonable doubt" -- at least 90% certain, in the conventional understanding. The prevailing standard in civil proceedings is the "preponderance of evidence" -- more likely true than not -- which implies greater than 50% likelihood.

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We Are Not A Potted Plant: Congress Responds to U.S. Foreign Aid Reform

3/12/07

Sarah Jane Staats

Randal Tobias Randall Tobias, the first U.S. director of foreign assistance, had back-to-back hearings last week with the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations.

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Eight Questions for Randall Tobias on the '08 International Affairs Budget

3/7/07

Sarah Jane Staats

”Randall President Bush's FY 2008 budget request offers the first glimpse of whether and how the rhetoric about transforming U.S. foreign assistance is being translated into reality.

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Fragile States and Climate Change: Things Fall Apart

3/2/07

Nancy Birdsall

**This post is co-authored with CGD senior fellow David Wheeler
Today's Washington Post column by David Ignatius finally inches popular understanding in the U.S. a bit further in the right direction on why climate change could be so costly to human society. It isn't just the direct costs of seawalls and more destructive hurricanes that climate change will bring. It's the risk that institutional arrangements to deal with those costs will not be resilient and will collapse under the resulting pressure--so that, as Chinua Achebe suggested about post-colonial West Africa, things do literally "fall apart".

CGD State of the Union Bingo 2007 Goes Global: Where We Played, and What We Heard

1/24/07

Sarah Jane Staats

”Center From D.C. to Dhaka, scores of people gathered around live broadcasts of President Bush to play CGD State of the Union bingo and watch the president’s first address to a new Democratic majority in Congress. The rules are simple: listen for key policy terms in Bush’s address and be the first to mark your bingo card. The point: U.S.

Ideas to Action:

The United States Can Give Better Aid to Haiti

Is Liberia Africa's New Diamond Success Story?

Three Cheers for John Edwards: First Global Poverty Proposal of the '08 Presidential Campaigns. Who's Next?

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Climate Change and Criminal Liability

We Are Not A Potted Plant: Congress Responds to U.S. Foreign Aid Reform

Eight Questions for Randall Tobias on the '08 International Affairs Budget

Fragile States and Climate Change: Things Fall Apart

CGD State of the Union Bingo 2007 Goes Global: Where We Played, and What We Heard

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