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CGD in the News
May 14, 2014
Despite her rocky relationship with the Nigerian press, Okonjo-Iweala has proved a phenomenal spokeswoman for her country. "She knows what to talk about, the kinds of things the West absolutely loves: poverty eradication, women's rights, education for girls," said Tayo. "They love...
CGD in the News
May 07, 2014
"I think after many decades of low levels growth, we’re seeing extremely high levels of growth in Africa. It’s not uncommon for countries to be growing at six, seven, eight percent. And a country like Nigeria is particularly exciting because there’s at least 150 million people...
CGD in the News
May 06, 2014
The research organizations, which in almost all cases are set up as nonprofit groups, are not required under federal law to publicly disclose their donors, though they must file federal tax returns that detail how they spend their money.
But groups like the Center for Global Development, which has ...
CGD in the News
April 09, 2014
“There is no silver bullet for promoting economic development. But what I think is very clear, and what I think the White House and the federal agencies have come to recognize through [the Power Africa] initiative, is that one of the major, and in many cases the number one, constraint on job g...
CGD in the News
March 18, 2014
Despite misgivings about certain countries, Africa is still in a fundamentally different place than it was 20 or 30 years ago when the old debts were taken on, thanks to robust growth and better public sector management, said Todd Moss, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Global Devel...
CGD in the News
March 03, 2014
Africa auctions off mining and oil exploration to a "broad array of companies from around the world that you did not see before," says Todd Moss, a former senior State Department official dealing with Africa who is now at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C.
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