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How Should Donors Work with the Private Sector?

June 12, 2015
We are enthusiastic about the growing interest in supporting private investment in developing countries, but it matters a lot how this is done. The sorry history of failed and distortionary partnerships should tell us something about how donor countries can do a better job of working with the privat...
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Extending the UK Charity Commission’s Anti-Terror Powers Could Backfire

May 27, 2015
During the Queen’s Speech, newly re-elected British Prime Minister David Cameron proposed an extended counter-extremism bill in order to confront “head-on the poisonous Islamist extremist ideology.” A press release from the Prime Minister’s office said that the...

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2015

12:30—2:00 PM

CGD Europe Sandwich Seminar: Migrants and the Making of America

May 19, 2015
In this seminar, Sandra Sequeira (LSE) examined the long-run impact of migration on economic development. Along with her co-authors Nathan Nunn and Nancy Quian, she showed that the settlement of European migrants in the United States during the Age of Mass Migration (1860-1920) has had a persistent ...