October 2, 2009
Weekly Tweets for 2009-10-02
- RT @sprungpr: response to Boston Globe on #microfinance--Elisabeth Rhyne, Ctr for Financial Inclusion http://tinyurl.com/yagxgvm @cfi_accion #
CGD Policy Blogs
October 1, 2009
A New Center on Disease Outbreaks
Resources for the Future is launching a new Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy next week. The lunchtime launch is on Wednesday, October 7 and open to the public.
The Center’s name may be long and a bit wonky, but the purpose is simple: conduct analysis to improve prediction and prevention of disease outbreak and spread – here in the U.S. and globally. That sounds a lot like the CDC, doesn’t it?
September 30, 2009
Just in Time: New CGD Task Force Report on Principles for Expanding Financial Access
Recent developments have brought to the front the importance and relevance of the Center’s extensive work on improving access to financial services in developing countries, where a very large proportion of households and firms lack such access. First, in the Pittsburgh Summit Communiqué, the G-20 pledged to:
September 30, 2009
The U.S. Dilemma over How to Help Zimbabwe: Some Ideas from My Congressional Testimony
Zimbabwe is not only a problem for all of Africa, it’s a vexing dilemma for U.S policymakers. Some facts:
September 30, 2009
The IMF beyond Istanbul
This post originally appeared in the Business Standard.
Wanted: An Asian Managing Director and new approaches to capital flows.
The IMF will strike a triumphalist tone at its forthcoming annual meetings in Istanbul. Some of this will be warranted because the IMF’s record in responding to the global financial crisis was commendable, even if its record leading up to it was less stellar (see http://www.iie.com/realtime/?p=942 for more details).
September 29, 2009
Expecting Miracles
Abhijit Banerjee in a joint interview with Esther Duflo by Philanthropy Action:
September 28, 2009
Microfinance and the Market Test
Here's the end of Rich Rosenberg's new review of Portfolios of the Poor:
September 28, 2009
Mismatch between Newly Inclusive G-20 and Limited Changes at the IMF and World Bank
The big headline from Pittsburgh was the G-20 officially becoming the recognized grouping on “global economic issues”, eclipsing forever the nearly four-decade role of the G-7/8.
September 25, 2009
Weekly Tweets for 2009-09-25
- Blattman for now? http://bit.ly/4pVPne RT @timothyogden:@davidroodman This one is crying out for the Roodman treatment http://bit.ly/3wYS86 #
September 24, 2009
CGD Storms the Steel City
As part of an ongoing effort to persuade the leaders of the G-20 countries to better address the needs of poor countries in their Summit, CGD president Nancy Birdsall visited Pittsburgh yesterday with a small band of CGDers in tow, myself included.
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