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Blog Post
August 27, 2014
Angus Deaton said he didn’t mind poverty analysis as long as the poverty line is infinity. Stevenson and Wolfers (2013) assemble the array of survey based measures of subjective well- being (SWB), such as “life satisfaction” or “happiness” and search for income sa...
CGD in the News
August 25, 2014
Northern California suffered its strongest earthquake in 25 years on Sunday, and although 120 people were injured, not a single fatality was reported. Meanwhile, the U.S. Geological Survey put initial estimates of economic losses at $1 billion. Both the low human cost and high economic cost illustra...
CGD in the News
August 12, 2014
Guess what? Just giving cash to poor people has all kinds of positive benefits—such as them buying food!” says Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Global Development who has studied the impact of anti-poverty programs. “The rewards are a good idea. The...
Blog Post
August 04, 2014
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) needs to be reauthorized next year and discussions about how to improve it are picking up steam. There is a lot that is unknown—when it will be renewed, for how long, and whether the renewal will be as “seamless” as everyone says they w...