The CGD Podcast

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Reducing Inequality Does Not Equal Reducing Poverty – Podcast with Nora Lustig

October 26, 2015
A note of caution to policymakers on this edition of the CGD Podcast: make sure the policies you enact to reduce inequality do not end up raising poverty. That’s what my guest Nora Lustig found in her studies of developing countries – mainly in Latin America.
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“Our Economy Depends on Maintaining the Forests” – Podcast with Brazil’s Amazon Champion

October 19, 2015
If you want a simple explanation of why climate change is a development issue, Juliana Santiago can provide it. The head of the Amazon Fund department at Brazil’s national development bank BNDES tells me “we identified that our economy was dependent on the maintenance of the forest,&rdqu...
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Investing in Financial Inclusion – Podcast with Njuguna Ndung'u

October 14, 2015
With growth, development and financial inclusion high on the agenda at the recent World Bank/IMF meetings in Lima, Peru, this week's podcast looks back at an innovation that helped bring millions of people in Kenya into the financial system. Economist and former governor of the Central Bank of K...
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Can MDBs Help End Poverty? – Podcast with Montek Ahluwalia

October 06, 2015
The very first Global Goal on the new UN development agenda, formally adopted earlier this month, is to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere.” On this week’s CGD podcast, economist Montek Singh Ahluwalia, who also serves as Co-Chair of CGD’s new High Level Panel on the Fu...