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Dec
7
2023
VIRTUAL
10:00—11:15 AM ET / 3:00-4:15 PM GMT
November 20, 2023
In this edition of the Future of Development series, Seema Jayachandran and Rohini Somanathan will join host Ranil Dissanayake to discuss environmental externalities and the future of development. They will focus on how governments (and others) can address the environmental costs of widespread and d...
Dec
1
2020
9:00—10:15 AM ET
November 16, 2020
The rapid spread of mobile phones in developing countries, coupled with recent advances in our ability to analyze big data through tools such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, has generated considerable excitement about the potential of information and communications technology (ICT) ...
Jun
28
2016
3:30—5:00 PM
June 17, 2016
Donor governments are increasingly utilising direct partnerships with governments and local organisations as a way to deliver sustainable results. Whether called country ownership, aid localisation, or sustainable development, the evidence base around localised approaches to foreign assistance remai...
Sep
16
2010
4:30—5:45 PM
September 09, 2010
There's good news out of Africa. Seventeen emerging countries are putting behind them the conflict, stagnation, and dictatorships of the past. Since the mid-1990s, these countries have achieved steady economic growth, deepened democracy, improved governance, and decreased poverty. Former CGD senior ...
Apr
23
2009
11:30—1:30 PM
April 17, 2009
DATE: Thursday, April 23, 2009
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
SUBJECT: U.S. Assistance to Africa: A Call for Foreign Aid Reform
WITNESSES:
Panel I
Mr. Earl Gast
Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator
Bureau for Africa
United States Agency for International Development
Panel II
Ousmane Badiane...
Mar
17
2009
4:00—5:30 PM
March 04, 2009
Please join us in honoring ONE, the 2008 winner of the Commitment to Development Ideas in Action Award, sponsored jointly by the Center for Global Development (CGD) and Foreign Policy magazine. ONE is an advocacy organization that raised awareness about global poverty during the 2008 U.S. presidenti...
Jan
16
2009
3:00—4:30 PM
January 14, 2009
Join Nancy Birdsall, David Gergen, and CGD senior fellows who are authors of essays in our newest book, The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President , for a lively discussion of the prospects for improved U.S. development policy under President Barack Obama....