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Blog Post
December 11, 2014
The votes are in! Yesterday, MCC’s board of directors met to select countries for FY2015 compact and threshold program eligibility. Last week, I made some predictions about the choices the board would make. Let’s look at yesterday’s decisions and see how I did&hel...
Blog Post
December 11, 2014
In a nearly unprecedented gesture for a sitting head of state, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf joined the Senate Foreign Relations African Affairs subcommittee hearing on “The Ebola Epidemic: The Keys to Success for the International Response” to provide a statement, as wel...
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November 19, 2014
CGD senior policy analyst Sarah Rose will forecast which countries the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s board of directors is likely to select for FY2015 compact and threshold program eligibility at its December 10th board meeting. Drawing on a new MCC Monitor Analysis released earlier in th...
CGD in the News
November 04, 2014
Asian countries have made it clear that they are eager to pool more public capital to meet the region’s infrastructure needs, whether it happens at the ADB or in a new institution. For the United States, the question is simple: do you want to lead that effort at the ADB, or do you want China t...
Blog Post
October 24, 2014
On Monday October 20, Joko Widodo (“Jokowi”) was inaugurated as president of Indonesia. As I wrote at the time of the election in July, Indonesia’s deforestation rate—now the world’s highest—and its oversized effect on global climate emissions are ...
CGD in the News
October 17, 2014
Imagine you’re a doctor and someone hands you the chart of a 60-year-old man, asking you to predict the patient’s health for the next decade. The guy is a probiotic-eating marathon runner and his cholesterol numbers look great. Still, your prediction will likely give more weight to the a...