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December 07, 2012
In this episode, Owen talks to fellow CGD Senior Fellow Michael Clemens about the relationship between migration and development.
Michael talks about the impact of migration on migrants themselves, and how micro-data has been used to expose a significant inequality of opportunity based on location....
Nov
27
2012
10:00—11:30 AM
November 15, 2012
The World Bank's Program-for-Results (PforR) financing instrument was approved in January 2012 to complement the two existing financing instruments of the Bank: the Policy Financing instrument (DPL), which focuses on discrete policy actions within the direct control of governments, and the Project F...
BRIEFS
November 14, 2012
Climate negotiations have focused on reaching a top-down international agreement and on mobilizing a pool of financial resources. This brief explains the urgent need for a new entity to provide nonfinancial services to faciliate and augment climate action that any nations and private actors take. It...
October 17, 2012
Armed with these findings, CGD launched an extensive policy outreach effort which resulted in the addition of Haiti to the list of countries eligible for H-2 visas in January 2012. This change in migration policy comes at no cost to the US government, complementing traditional relief and develop...
October 17, 2012
In the aftermath of devastating natural disasters in developing countries, the United States and the international community focus on delivering humanitarian aid, often at substantial expense—on average, about $5 billion per year. An additional, complementary, and less expensive way to help woul...
Blog Post
October 11, 2012
This is a joint post with Stephanie Majerowicz
World Bank presidents have often defined their success in part via ever-larger replenishments for IDA, the Bank’s soft loan window. But at his first ever Bank-Fund annual meetings this weekend in Tokyo, Jim Yong Kim should explain to the gathered...