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CGD in the News
October 03, 2014
In this interview, CGD senior fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez explains how the combination of high indebtedness and low growth is hurting the world economy. She discusses how differences in policy responses help explain the different outcomes in the US, Europe and China. Liliana also highlights new risk...
CGD in the News
October 03, 2014
Mead Over, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, told ABC News that since Nigeria has succeeded in containing the outbreak, he expects the United States’ stronger public health system to quickly contain the disease in Dallas or if any other infected traveler arrives elsewhere.
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CGD in the News
October 02, 2014
That’s the premise of a new report [The Value of Forest Ecosystem Services to Developing Economies] from the Center on Global Development by the economist Katrina Mullan, who quantifies the value of forest ecosystems in an effort to complicate the traditional binary between conservation and de...
CGD in the News
October 02, 2014
According to Vijaya Ramachandran, one of the authors of the study [Should Countries Be More Like Shopping Malls? A Proposal for Service Performance Guarantees for Africa], at present there is almost no take-up of SPGs by developing-country governments or multilateral aid agencies. Indeed SPGs are no...
CGD in the News
September 29, 2014
Again, the relative importance of global threats from climate change to pandemic disease has grown over the past 30 years, but the Cold War mindset helps explain why the foreign policy establishment has been so flat-footed in its response to rising temperatures and the Ebola outbreak–these pro...
CGD in the News
September 29, 2014
"Achieving results is always hard," says Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. "But in general, having a constituency matters. You can't think of PEPFAR [the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief] without think about the domestic AIDS lobby ...
CGD in the News
September 29, 2014
“One of the great things about the MDGs was the messaging power. You could name all the goals,” said Casey Dunning, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Development, a think tank in Washington, D.C. “With 17 goals, that messaging power is diminished. It will be impossib...
CGD in the News
September 23, 2014
The social enterprise movement is built on cynicism about the public sector and large-scale private enterprise. A recent survey of 12,171 people aged 18 to 30 across 27 countries found that while 68 percent thought they had an opportunity to become entrepreneur, only 45 percent believed one person&r...