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December 22, 2021
In the fifth installment of the Future of Development series, which brings together experts to discuss the big questions facing developing countries over the next decade, Leonard Wantchekon and Sarah Khan took on the role of politics in development (and vice versa), exploring how political distortio...
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December 20, 2021
As the year draws to a close, the temptation to claim wisdom from adversity and experience becomes irresistible. We did it last year, by exploring what we learnt while the world burned around us. 2021 was perhaps a marginal improvement: not quite the best of times, but not quite the worst of times, ...
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December 17, 2021
Hi all, It feels fitting that the last links of the year (for such is this salvo of egregious geekery) should start with the crushing disappointment that the English test cricket team so reliably brings (rivalled only in its consistent mediocrity by the English political establishment, cur...
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December 10, 2021
In 2021, the ongoing grip of COVID-19 served as a stark reminder of the fragility of our progress in fighting poverty and COP26 highlighted the need for richer countries to provide substantial funding to meet global challenges. As the twin crises of a global pandemic and climate change threaten to l...
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December 03, 2021
As you get older, you accumulate a number of experiences that should—in theory—help you navigate your life with a little more elan and with fewer pitfalls. And for the most part, it works like that: even in the space of a few weeks I’ve seen how my small son has learnt which bits of our furniture ar...
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November 26, 2021
Illness and the prospect of this nu variant has put something of a dampener on my mood, but you know what cheers me up? Every year, without fail, the DI crew unearth a paper-of-the-year candidate in their JMC series, and this year it’s this stunning work from Juan Felipe Riaño. Just d...
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November 23, 2021
CGD's Masood Ahmed speaks with Sida's Carin Jämtin and MCC's Alexia Latortue about their takeaways from the 2021 Development Leaders Conference, including the tensions between national and global challenges, how development agency leaders can address them, and what these decisions might mean for age...