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CGD in the News
December 18, 2014
From the start, Rajiv Shah was Obama’s man to lead U.S. foreign aid efforts, and Nancy Birdsall, founding president of the Center for Global Development underscored how the outgoing USAID chief was a “major force” behind President Barack Obama’s goal to eliminate global extre...
CGD in the News
September 17, 2014
Global issues increasingly dominate the development agenda, ranging from the challenges of climate change to fighting criminality and health epidemics like the recent Ebola outbreak to the increasing ability of international capital to evade national tax regimes, says Nancy Birdsall, president of th...
CGD in the News
September 05, 2014
The U.S. needs to play a greater role in the World Bank to improve its perception in developing markets, according to Nancy Birdsall, president of the Washington-based Center for Global Development.
Emerging-market economies are making a bid for greater influence on the global financial system, wit...
CGD in the News
July 18, 2014
A new report by top Washington think tanks finds no measurable advance in reducing waste and duplication in foreign aid programmes, nor any improvement in how aid was distributed in the years from 2008 through 2012, the most recent period for which data were available.
“On the one hand there ...