In her presentation at the Centre for Policy Research in New Dehli on November 6, 2012, CGD President Nancy Birdsall outlines the likely rise of a new struggling middle class in India and the challenges and opportunities it presents.
This course introduces students to the relations among growth, inequality and globalization of economic markets, with a focus on implications for the developing world.
This course is an introduction to the study of the economic circumstances and problems of low and middle-income economies.
This introductory course focuses on microeconomic dimensions of trade relations between countries.
This introductory course teaches students about dominant paradigms of development and welfare, and situates such paradigms in the 20th century history of capitalism and liberal democracy.
This course aims to develop a broad understanding of the dynamics of inequality and poverty in Latin America and how market forces and government policies affect those dynamics.
This course presents an overview of poverty analysis and how it is applied by multilateral organizations.
In a presentation delivered at the UK Department for International Development on March 9, 2011, CGD president Nancy Birdsall spoke about opportunities and challenges for the implementation of Cash on Delivery Aid, an approach that allows aid agencies to address both short-term and long-term objectives of aid.
These slides are from a presentation by Liliana Rojas-Suarez on the macroprudential approach to financial regulation. Key components of this approach include the recent Basel III Accord, which, among other measures, will impose higher capital requirements and entail a tighter focus on high quality capital.
Regardless of your specialty, this workshop is designed to improve your research plans, your dissertations, and your job prospects.
This course will analyze the economic challenges faced by low and middle-income countries in their quest for development and public policies meant to address those challenges.
This half-term seminar first examines the link between foreign investment and development, then reviews policies and practices designed to promote investment in least developed countries, especially in Africa.
The course will introduce students to a variety of econometric techniques in impact evaluation and a set of analytical skills that will assist them in becoming both consumers and producers of applied empirical research in development. Students will not only learn how to critically analyze evaluation research and gauge how convincing it is in establishing a causal relationship, but also use these skills to develop an evaluation plan and conduct an impact evaluation of an existing development project.
This module will examine the leading issues related to capital flows between the developed and developing worlds. It will cover the various types of official and private finance as well as the institutions and policies designed to manage and promote these flows. The first half considers development assistance from both the recipient and donor perspectives, as well as the changing roles of the IMF and the multilateral development banks. In the second half, the course explores the key issues in debt, private investment, and the financial sector. The course will stress policy-relevant issues and the presentation of analysis and information in a format used in real policymaking settings.
Countries in the developing world face numerous health and population related challenges. This course will examine these issues with an emphasis on how you as an actor in the health and population sector can intervene to improve health conditions for the poor.
This course concerns the alleviation of poverty in poor countries. Its aim is to facilitate your understanding of the dimensions of poverty, its causes, and what you as a practitioner can do to help in its mitigation.
The goal of this course is to better understand the microeconomic foundations of development issues in poor countries, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The course will first focus on microeconomic theory as a framework for analyzing households’ and policymakers’ behavior.
This course is an analysis of poverty in developing countries, with an emphasis on the role of economic theory in understanding market failures, and on evaluation of public, social and business policies intended to solve market failures.