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Feb
2
2016
12:30—2:00 PM
January 19, 2016
There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world’s poore...
Mar
25
2015
12:00—1:30 PM
March 05, 2015
The homicide rate in Mexico began to soar in 2008, tripling by 2011. Why did it happen? Prior research has established links between aggresive military action by the national government against drug cartels and the spike in violence.
In a special CGD Sandwich Seminar, Michael Cleme...
Dec
9
2014
12:00—1:30 PM
November 24, 2014
The last quarter century of globalization has witnessed the largest reshuffle of global incomes since the Industrial Revolution. Branko Milanovic finds that the main factor behind the reshuffle was the rise of China and, to a slightly lesser extent, all of Asia. By tracking the evolution of individu...
CGD in the News
October 24, 2014
Well, their best bet is immigration, legal or otherwise. Not to belabor the obvious here, but where you live determines how much you can make. The same person with the same education and the same skills can make seven times more working in the United States than in Haiti, according to economists Mic...
CGD in the News
August 01, 2014
Remittances are set to exceed the half-trillion-dollar mark in the near future, according to a projection from the World Bank. The increase has been dramatic; in 1990 such flows amounted to $49 billion (in 2011 dollar terms). Why has such a rapid growth in remittances not led to any discernible grow...
CGD in the News
July 08, 2014
The study documenting that discrepancy came about when development economists couldn’t find any evidence that the massive surge of money from migrants was helping economic growth in their home countries. The “extremely clear implication,” one of the authors, Michael Clemens, tells ...