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CGD in the News
January 05, 2015
"It would be incredibly useful to know where all this money was spent, what it was spent on, what lessons can be learned from this disaster to use that money better in the future," said Vijaya Ramachandran, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Global Development.
CGD in the News
October 02, 2014
According to Vijaya Ramachandran, one of the authors of the study [Should Countries Be More Like Shopping Malls? A Proposal for Service Performance Guarantees for Africa], at present there is almost no take-up of SPGs by developing-country governments or multilateral aid agencies. Indeed SPGs are no...
CGD in the News
May 12, 2014
Vijaya Ramachandran, a senior fellow at the Centre for Global Development, a Washington think tank, said criticism of past practices had pushed China to modify its approach so it would be seen as a reliable partner.
"China sees its relationship with Africa as a very long-term one and is buildi...
CGD in the News
March 27, 2014
African businesses are reluctant employers. A given firm in Sub-Saharan Africa typically has 24% fewer people on its books than equivalent firms elsewhere, according to a recent paper from the Centre for Global Development (CGD), a think-tank based in Washington, DC. Given the links between employme...