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CGD in the News
September 19, 2014
Alan Gelb, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and former director of development policy at the World Bank, says geotagging projects will not only help ensure greater global and local oversight of projects, but track whether World Bank cash is heading to problem areas.
Apr
30
2014
9:00—10:30 AM
April 21, 2014
African nations have seen impressive economic growth in the last couple decades, but more is needed to sustain that growth and continue to improve the lives of African citizens. The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) argues that African nations need to vigorously promote economic tran...
CGD in the News
April 21, 2014
Who has the right to collect your biodata? Who gets to access it? How can it be used? And what happens in case of security failures? After all, you can change your passwords after a Heartbleed bug, but you can't change your irises.
Even agnostics agree that laws haven't kept pace with the t...
Dec
4
2013
4:00—5:30 PM
November 26, 2013
Technological constraints on the ability to send and receive money securely to remote locations are a common cause of poor implementation of anti-poverty programs. In new work based on one of the largest randomized controlled trials ever conducted, Karthik Muralidharan and colleagues (Paul Niehaus a...
CGD in the News
April 24, 2013
Following the Center for Global Development's Eighth Annual Richard H. Sabot Lecture: Technology to Leapfrog Development: The Aadhaar Experience, Senior Fellow Alan Gelb, Policy Analyst Julia Clark, and speaker Nandan Nilekani are featured in a Washington Post piece on Biometric IDs.
CGD in the News
April 24, 2013
Senior Fellow Alan Gelb and Policy Analyst Julia Clark are mentioned in a Bloomberg piece on their large volume of work surrounding Biometric IDs following the Center for Global Development's Eighth Annual Richard H. Sabot Lecture: Technology to Leapfrog Development: The Aadhaar Experience, feat...