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Dec
16
2008
2:00—4:00 PM
December 03, 2008
The last decade has seen a growing number of efforts to measure the quality of foreign aid, including part of CGD's own Commitment to Development Index (CDI). This event will showcase three new projects of this kind—projects that dramatize how the quality of aid matters as well the quantity, that po...
Nov
3
2008
4:30—6:00 PM
October 28, 2008
Nancy Birdsall, President of the Center for Global Development, will give a lecture entitled, "The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President" on Monday, November 3rd, at 4:30pm in Lewis Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. The talk is part of the Einaudi Center’...
Sep
18
2008
9:00—10:30 AM
September 16, 2008
Each day brings fresh evidence that Americans’ well-being is linked to the lives of others around the world as never before. Accelerating advances in technology and the creation of new knowledge offer undreamed-of opportunities. Yet global poverty, inequality, disease and the threat of rapid climate...
Oct
6
2008
10:30—12:00 PM
September 16, 2008
Commodity prices may have sagged somewhat but the latest spike in food prices will not be the last. Moreover, tight markets, climate change, and the changing role of investors in commodity markets all suggest that food price volatility may be greater in the future. Even with more investment in agric...
Sep
16
2008
2:30—4:30 PM
September 09, 2008
You are respectfully requested to attend the following OPEN hearing of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, to be held in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building:
DATE: Tuesday, September 16, 2008
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
SUBJECT: Foreign Assistance in the Americas
WITNESSES:
Pane...
Mar
3
2008
5:00—6:30 PM
February 28, 2008
The SAIS International Development Program and the SAIS Center for International Business and Public Policy will host a discussion by two leading critics of the HELP Commission Report on U.S. foreign assistance that was submitted to the President and Congress in December 2007. Leo Hindery, Vice Chai...
Jan
9
2008
3:30—5:15 PM
January 08, 2008
Curious about the buzz surrounding climate change talk? Just can't get away from it, can you? Wondering what all the talk on climate change impact, mitigation,and adaptation means?
If you have pondered over these issues then you are invited to come hear Professor Robert Mendelsohn from Yale Unive...