August 20, 2009
Obama, Clinton: Elevating Women's Issues but Not Global Development?
This blog entry also appeared on the Huffington Post.
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June 10, 2009
Will Donors Embrace Global "Entitlements" for Health Care And Other Basic Human Needs?
Gorik Ooms and European colleagues are organizing a small meeting in Brussels in October to be called the Global Responsibilities for Global Health Rights Conference. The Conference is organized by the Helene De Beir Foundation and has the moral or financial support of AIDS Fonds, Netherlands; Parliamentarians for the MDGs, Belgium; International Centre for Reproductive Health, Belgium; International Civil Society Support, Netherlands; Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium and The Lancet, United Kingdom.
February 18, 2009
And Now Presenting...Aid Watch!
Last week, Bill Easterly and colleagues formally launched the new Aid Watch initiative at the Development Research Institute at NYU. Aid Watch is meant to serve as an independent monitor of the aid practices of official development agencies, through research, events, and a blog.
February 17, 2009
CGD's 2009 State of the Union BINGO!
President Barack Obama’s first address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 24 isn’t officially a State of the Union Address, since he has just recently taken office. But it will look and sound exactly like a State of the Union, and that can mean only one thing: time for CGD’s ever popular State of the Union (SOTU) BINGO!
January 5, 2009
My (Partial) Policy Wish List for 2009: Development Dreaming or Practical Possibilities?
We are at the start of what promises to be an unusually difficult year in the global economy. Policy decisions in the United States and other rich world countries will matter immensely for poor and vulnerable people living in developing countries.
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