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CGD in the News
January 15, 2010
Sir, Michael Weinstein ("The economic paradox of Ghana's poverty", November 10) wrongly suggests that there is little that poor countries themselves can do to crawl out of poverty. He correctly points out that Ghana and South Korea had similar income levels 40 years ago, but have since gone in oppos...
January 14, 2010
On April 21 Nigeria took final steps to pay off about $30 billion in accumulated debt for about $12 billion-an overall discount of about 60 percent-using foreign reserves from soaring oil prices. Nigeria had racked up arrears during decades of military rule and the debt was seen as a major barrier t...
Blog Post
January 05, 2010
This entry was also posted on the Huffington Post, AllAfrica, and Sahara Reporters.
Amid all the media frenzy around the Nigerian underwear bomber and how America should have stopped him before he tried to blow up a passenger plane on Christmas Day, a critical piece to the counter-terrorism puzzl...