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Blog Post
May 17, 2024
At a time when global challenges appear daunting and geopolitical rivalries are rising, it is useful to remind ourselves that the past 75 years have seen more improvement in the human condition than ever before. Fifty years ago, half the world lived in extreme poverty, today it is less than one in 1...
Apr
16
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
2:00—3:00 PM ET / 7:00-8:00 PM BST
April 04, 2024
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the first African and first woman to head the World Trade Organization, building on a long career where she guided Nigeria through debt distress and introduced sweeping economic reforms across two terms as finance minister. She was also a leader at the World Bank across a 25-...
Jan
8
2024
VIRTUAL
9:00—10:15 AM ET / 2:00-3:15 PM GMT
December 18, 2023
Join the Center for Global Development for the launch of Scaling Up Development Impact, a new book by Isabel Guerrero, which draws from a decade of experience in supporting grassroots organizations to scale impact at Imago Global Grassroots and pulls insights from a Harvard Kennedy School course wit...
Blog Post
May 22, 2023
This week, the African Development Bank (AfDB) will hold its annual meeting in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. This is the right moment for its shareholders and other donors to commit to allocating some of their excess Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to the hybrid capital fund that the AfDB has proposed to ...
Sep
13
2022
12:00—1:15 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
September 07, 2022
In the Future of Development series, the Center for Global Development and the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation (gui2de) bring together development experts, scholars, and policymakers to address the big questions facing developing countries and help shape th...
Blog Post
May 17, 2022
This week we welcome the release of a new CGD book: Relief Chief: A Manifesto for Saving Lives in Dire Times, by Mark Lowcock. A former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator—and a current Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow at CDG—Mark gives us an inside ...
Op-Ed
April 13, 2022
They are the world’s forgotten poor, invisible to the financial markets, barely noticed because, understandably, the focus is on Ukraine, but nearly 800 million of the world’s poorest people are about to be trapped by an onrushing food crisis caused by soaring prices, fuelled by shortages and exacer...
Apr
19
2022
1:00—2:30 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
April 08, 2022
To discuss the impact of the war in Ukraine on low-income economies, and how to structure a robust response, CGD convenes a panel discussion of distinguished experts in developing country finances and the global aid and finance architecture.
Blog Post
November 23, 2021
CGD's Masood Ahmed speaks with Sida's Carin Jämtin and MCC's Alexia Latortue about their takeaways from the 2021 Development Leaders Conference, including the tensions between national and global challenges, how development agency leaders can address them, and what these decisions might mean for age...