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The First Legal Road Map for Social Impact Bond Practitioners

Catalina Geib

March 12, 2015

When designing and implementing Social Impact Bonds (SIBs), practitioners and policy innovators in the developing world will inevitably face the challenge of understanding and adapting SIBs to each government’s legal jurisdiction.

Jun

2

2015

10:00—11:00 AM

Digital Humanitarians: A CGD Europe Book Launch with Author Patrick Meier

Owen Barder

March 11, 2015

The information overflow that occurs in the wake of a disaster can paralyze humanitarian response efforts. Computers, mobile phones, social media, mainstream news, earth-based sensors, humanitarian drones, and orbiting satellites generate vast volumes of data during major disasters. Making sense of ...

Mar

20

2015

1:00—2:30 PM

Does Results-Based Aid Change Anything? A CGD Europe Brown Bag Seminar

Owen Barder

and

William Savedoff

March 09, 2015

With all the hype (and criticism) over foreign aid programs that pay for results, what do we really know about how they are being implemented and whether they are effective?  In their new paper “Does Results-Based Aid Change Anything? Pecuniary Interests, Attention, Accountability and Dis...

Mar

25

2015

12:00—1:30 PM

CGD Europe Sandwich Seminar with Michael Clemens on Effects of US Employment Opportunities on Violent Crime in Mexico

Matt Collin

and

Michael Clemens

March 05, 2015

The homicide rate in Mexico began to soar in 2008, tripling by 2011. Why did it happen? Prior research has established links between aggresive military action by the national government against drug cartels and the spike in violence.   In a special CGD Sandwich Seminar, Michael Cleme...