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CGD in the News
June 27, 2014
On Switzerland's opaque influence in Africa and the billions it could be costing the continent in commodity trade:
"A platinum price rise would have benefited South Africa's economy ultimately, at least to the extent that South Africa's export prices - and related declarations for ...
Blog Post
April 09, 2014
The long-anticipated rebasing of Nigeria’s GDP series was finally made public on Sunday April 6, and the general media reaction has been cautiously celebratory. But the reaction has largely missed one big point: the rebasing establishes that the biggest economy in Africa has the lowest tax rev...
Blog Post
February 18, 2014
This Q&A was originally posted at Democracy in Africa.
1. Tell us a bit about your work with the Center for Global Development
CGD is a ‘think and do tank’ established in Washington, DC in 2001, doing rigorous research with the aim of producing policy proposals to improve the ...
Blog Post
February 04, 2014
Two main objections have been raised (by the High Level Panel on Post-2015, for example) to including an income inequality target in the post-2015 framework. One is technical, namely the claim that there isn’t a good enough measure of inequality. I don’t take this very seriously. Is this...