Poverty is so Hot for Fall (and Why That's a Good Thing)
9/25/06
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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CGD Policy Blogs
Airline Tax for AIDS Drugs Takes Off: Time for the U.S. to Sign On
9/22/06
President Chirac's proposal for a global air travel ticket tax to fund development seemed unlikely to fly less than a year ago, especially in America (where any new "tax" is taboo). (See the Jan. 2005 CGD event Innovative Development Finance Mechanisms: The Pros and Cons of the International Tax Plan for slides and the original proposal).
NYC Cash Transfer Plan and the Power of Impact Evaluation
9/22/06
When New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s anti-poverty commission recommended this week that the city pay poor people to send their kids to school and keep up-to-date on immunizations, the idea had an oddly familiar ring to it.
Nicholas Kristof Reviews Easterly's White Man's Burden – and Summarizes Foreign Aid Conundrum
9/21/06
The New York Review of Books' Aid: Can it Work? is a wide-ranging review of Bill Easterly's recent book The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Easterly discussed his book at a CGD event last March, transcrip
Improving Access to Financial Services in Latin America
9/14/06
McPassport to Labor Mobility! (Seriously!)
9/12/06
Hat Tip to the PSD Blog for an intriguing story that the mainstream media almost entirely missed today. The president of McDonald's Europe announced in Brussels plans to issue European McDonald's employees a "McPassport" -- a new type of document that could greatly increase the labor mobility of its 225,000 European employees. Christine Bowers at PSD Blog writes:
Doubling the Global Workforce: The challenge of integrating China, India and the former Soviet Bloc into the World Economy
11/9/04
Richard B. Freeman from Harvard University and NBER Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics gave a presentation on the expanding global workforce on November 8.