October 27, 2015
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Joins CGD
It’s been almost 10 years since I sat down for coffee with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in Davos. So it is a thrill for me that Ngozi is now joining CGD as a distinguished visiting fellow.
Views from the Center
October 7, 2011
In Celebration of This Year’s Nobel Peace Prize
I was delighted to learn this morning that the Nobel Committee awarded this year’s peace prize to not one but three highly effective female leaders: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, activist Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and rights activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen.
February 9, 2011
On Sudan Debt: Devil Is in the Details
This is a joint post with Wren Elhai.
What everyone was expecting is now official. On July 9th, South Sudan will become the world’s newest country. But while the date is certain, there are still plenty of details to be worked out. There is no deal as of yet on sharing Sudan’s oil wealth, or on its nearly $40 billion in external debt. Successful resolution of the debt issue acceptable to both north and south and the international community is crucial to the success of the new nation and to avoiding a resumption of the long and bloody civil war.
January 12, 2011
One Year Later: Policy-Driven Responses to Help Haiti
Twelve months after the devastating earthquake, some of the fresh ideas CGD policy experts proposed to help Haiti through non-aid channels have gained traction, while others remain relevant, but have yet to be tried. The anniversary is a time to revisit progress and shine a light on untapped opportunities to assist Haitians in their reconstruction efforts through U.S. policies on trade, debt, migration, and more:
May 10, 2010
Fresh Ideas for Haiti Begin to Take Hold
Following the devastating earthquake in January, CGD experts offered fresh ideas on how the U.S. and the international community could help Haiti rebuild, particularly through non-aid channels. Several recent developments in the U.S. legislative branch reflect or build upon these ideas:
Trade
March 15, 2010
Truthiness and Justiness at the Haiti Debt Hearing
When I was writing about third world debt a decade ago, I watched Jubilee 2000 and other debt cancellation campaigners pound their way to victory with simplistic claims about the importance of debt cancellation, such as that principal and interest payments were diverting enough government revenue from poor countries' health budgets to kill 19,000 children per day. I wondered: are they naive or am I?
January 25, 2010
Suspend Haiti's Debt---And Take Official Lenders beyond Lending
More Fresh Ideas for Haiti
April 16, 2009
Liberia Cuts its Debt with $1.2 Billion Buy-Back at 97 Percent Discount
In a huge step forward, this week Liberia slashed its foreign debt by buying back $1.2 billion in commercial debt -- about one-quarter of its foreign debt -- from its private foreign creditors, including banks, hedge funds, and other “distressed debt” investment funds.
November 24, 2008
Tim Geithner and Lawrence Summers - Good Picks for the U.S. and the World's Poor
We at CGD warmly welcome president-elect Barack Obama's appointments of Timothy Geithner as Secretary of Treasury and Lawrence Summers to head the National Economic Council. Both are members of the CGD Board of Directors. This is no coincidence.
October 17, 2007
Bravo For New IMF Realism On Globalization And Inequality -- And Three Comments
The IMF's 2007 World Economic Outlook has a chapter on inequality and globalization (Chapter 4), which concludes that globalization in the last two decades has contributed to increased inequality in most countries. Bravo to the IMF for daring to move, on globalization, from apparent unencumbered globaphile to concerned realist!
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