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Data Set for "Understanding Latin America’s Financial Inclusion Gap - Working Paper 367"
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
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Maria Alejandra Amado
May 27, 2014
This is the data set for Working Paper 367 which analyzes Latin America’s financial inclusion gap, the difference between the average financial inclusion for Latin America and the corresponding average for a set of comparator countries. 
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The G-20 Development Working Group Agenda – Clare Walsh and Scott Morris
Lawrence MacDonald
April 14, 2014
Clare Walsh, a senior official in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the chair of the Development Working Group of the G-20, recently visited CGD for a round-table discussion with CGD senior staff. Afterwards I hosted her and CGD senior associate, Scott Morris, a former ...
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US Investment Treaties Are Missing in Asia Too
Ben Leo
April 11, 2014
Last week, I showed how the US has fallen far behind its peers in terms of negotiating bilateral investment treaties (BITs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
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Nigeria’s Upward Revision of GDP Should Sound Alarm on Tax-to-GDP Ratio
April 09, 2014
The long-anticipated rebasing of Nigeria’s GDP series was finally made public on Sunday April 6, and the general media reaction has been cautiously celebratory. But the reaction has largely missed one big point: the rebasing establishes that the biggest economy in Africa has the lowest tax rev...