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CGD in the News
December 19, 2014
Senior fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez discusses reasons for the Fed’s announcement about the timing of increases in interest rates. She also explains how the significant increase in private sector debt issued by a number of emerging markets in the last year is a concern in the face of the expecte...
CGD in the News
December 19, 2014
Owen Barder, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, said: “Now, [donors] can make a sensible judgement about how to structure a loan without having to push it over a threshold to get the whole thing to count, because the more concessional it is, the more it counts as aid.”...
CGD in the News
December 18, 2014
Researchers have examined the size of economic losses caused by current restrictions on international migration, and the findings are frankly remarkable. As development economist and world-leading migration expert, Michael Clemens, puts it, “The few estimates we have should make economists&rsq...
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
December 18, 2014
Zimbabwe's former finance minister Tendai Biti says he has no faith in the new look Zanu PF team, including newly-minted vice presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekhezela Phoko, and their capacity to pull Zimbabwe out of the political, economic and social abyss.
Biti, who is currently in Wash...
CGD in the News
December 15, 2014
OECD economist Federico Cingano also argued that “[r]edistribution policies via taxes and transfers are a key tool to ensure the benefits of growth are more broadly distributed.” Despite such recommendations, survey data from around the world show people are suspicious of taxes as a tool...
CGD in the News
December 10, 2014
In comments given to the London School of Economics Diplomacy Commission, Barder asked the audience to imagine a country that had no way to collect taxes, no police force, no ability to provide even emergency health care to its citizens, and no ability to enforce any of the laws it decides to make. ...