Press Releases
For Promoting Awareness to Global Poverty in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections, the ONE Campaign Grabs the 2008 Commitment to Development Award
WASHINGTON,D.C.(December 22,2008)- The ONE Campaign, an advocacy organization that raised awareness about global poverty during the 2008 U.S. presidential elections, is the 2008 winner of the Commitment to Development “Ideas in Action” Award, sponsored jointly by the Center for Global Development (CGD) and Foreign Policy magazine.
U.S. Ranks Poorly on 2008 Commitment to Development Index
WASHINGTON,D.C.(December 4,2008)- As President-elect Barack Obama seeks ways to restore the United States’ international reputation in the midst of a global financial crisis with roots in New York and Washington, an annual assessment of rich countries’ policies to build prosperity around the world finds that the United States ranks 17th out of 22 high-income countries.
China Passes U.S., Leads World in Power Sector Carbon Emissions
WASHINGTON,D.C.(August 27,2008)- China set a new world record this year, surpassing the United States as the world’s biggest emitter of CO2 from power generation, according to new data from the Center for Global Development (CGD). But on a per capita basis, U.S. power-sector emissions are still nearly four times those of China.
Is Donor AIDS Money Strengthening Health Systems? New Study Finds Missed Opportunities
WASHINGTON,D.C.(August 4,2008)- Billions of dollars in donor money being spent in developing countries to fight HIV/AIDS can be much more effective if the big donor programs pay more attention to their effects on the health systems of host countries, according to a new report from the Center for Global Development (CGD).
Book Launch: George Bush's Foreign Aid: Transformation or Chaos?
WASHINGTON,D.C.(May 20,2008)- The administration of George W. Bush has ramped up foreign aid spending to unprecedented levels and has implemented a number of important foreign aid initiatives but each of these advances has brought with it a set of policy challenges for the future and has added to the troubling fragmentation already plaguing US foreign aid, according to a new book by Carol Lancaster, a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD) and the director of Georgetown University’s Mortara Center for International Studies.