Finance

“Macro” issues naturally dominate the talk in these seminars and in the corridors. But not this time. I was surprised to find "micro” development issues suffused the agenda.

The FAO’s Somalia Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) released an assessment of external remittances to Somalia, based on a survey of both urban and internally-displaced families. The headline result from the report was that apparently remittances were on the decline, but the FSN...

The very first Global Goal on the new UN development agenda, formally adopted earlier this month, is to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere.” On this week’s CGD podcast, economist Montek Singh Ahluwalia, who also serves as Co-Chair of CGD’s new High Level Panel on the Fu...