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W-GDP One Year On: Taking Stock and Looking Forward
Megan O'Donnell
March 23, 2020
The Trump administration’s Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (W-GDP) is just over a year old. Its anniversary presents an opportunity to take stock of progress to date and reflect on how W-GDP can be strengthened going forward.
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Latin America in a New Global Political and Economic Scenario: What Does It Mean for the Region?
Guillermo Calvo et al.
January 30, 2017
Since mid-2016, a new wave of political developments in advanced countries has been shaking Latin America. This latest assessment of the Latin American Committee on Financial Issues (CLAAF) examines how the anti-globalist movement sweeping the West will affect macroeconomic trends in Latin...
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Executive Orders Affecting Refugees Will Only Harm the US National Interest
Cindy Huang
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Hannah Postel
January 27, 2017
Among the wave of executive orders being developed by the Trump administration, so far two specifically target US commitments to refugees. They are consistent with Trump’s campaign promises to tighten borders and disengage from the world. And, if signed, they would result in serious harm to vu...
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The Dangers of Deal Making for Development
Scott Morris
January 17, 2017
Private sector development has long been viewed as essential for economic growth in developing countries, and the US role in promoting it has focused mostly on how developing country governments could best set a policy environment that made it possible. But let’s consider the risks of con...