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Jan
12
2023
10:00—11:00 AM Eastern Time | 3:00—4:00 PM GMT
December 20, 2022
Please join us for a discussion with CGD President, Masood Ahmed and IFAD President, Alvaro Lario reflecting on his first 100 days in office. IFAD is the only multilateral institution focused exclusively improving the inclusivity, productivity, resilience, and sustainability of rural agriculture and...
POLICY PAPERS
December 07, 2022
This paper studies the formal labor market integration and firm creation of Venezuelan immigrants and refugees in Colombia between late 2019 to late 2021. It applies a novel framework to identify segments of the Colombian economy where Venezuelan immigrants and refugees are lagging behind.
Blog Post
December 07, 2022
On November 3, 2022, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro and Minister of Health Carolina Corcho announced a new model of health delivery for the nation. This blog uses the health system assessment method presented in the book Getting Health Reform Right to examine four fundamental flaws in the logic ...
CGD NOTES
November 21, 2022
Spain’s relationship with Latin America can be mutually beneficial or stale and insignificant. Now, the timing is right for Spain to launch new strategies and a new framework of bilateral, multilateral, and multiregional engagement with the region, in which Spain should embrace its dual role as brid...
Blog Post
November 16, 2022
How can we produce evidence that is more relevant and useful to policy and practice? This blog explores the main themes of the inaugural conference of Transforming Evidence Network (sessions were organized around making, mobilizing, and using evidence), and reflects on areas for further action, draw...
CGD NOTES
November 16, 2022
Inflation has become a central feature of the global economy. In Latin America (aside from idiosyncratic cases such as Argentina and Venezuela, where high inflation rates have long been the norm), inflation began to rise the first half of 2021, at the same time it did in the US. The fact that risin...
Nov
17
2022
2:00—3:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/ 7:00—8:00pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
November 09, 2022
Last month, the Center for Global Development convened experts to lay out the major issues and challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean region and to discuss priorities for the next President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). In the run-up to the IDB election on November 20, ca...
Nov
16
2022
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2:00—3:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/ 7:00—8:00pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
November 07, 2022
The recent episode of high inflation has become a source of concern for policymakers in Latin America. This is a region where periods of high inflation or even hyperinflation were accompanied by deep recessions and a sharp deterioration in social indicators, such as poverty levels and income distri...
Blog Post
November 07, 2022
What’s the latest in international economic development research? Last weekend was the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference, often called NEUDC. With more than 135 papers presented (and almost all of them available for download), it’s a great way to see recent trends in t...