Globalization

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Commitment to Development Index 2017: Four Messages for Political Leaders
September 05, 2017
Today, we published this year’s Commitment to Development Index (CDI), which ranks 27 of the world’s richest countries in how well their policies help to spread global prosperity to the developing world. 
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Middle Class: Winners or Losers in a Globalized World?
August 02, 2017
Globalization is under attack in the West. The debate among pundits is no longer about whether globalization is to blame or not. It is about why globalization is now the bugaboo it has become. A common thread are changes, for the worse, in the economic and social standing of the Western middle class...
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Addressing the World’s Most Pressing Economic Challenges – IMF’s Christine Lagarde
July 26, 2017
What are the economic, political, and technological risks to future global growth and stability? This complex question was the topic of a recent conversation between IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and CGD’s president Masood Ahmed. This week’s podcast is an edited version of thei...
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Addressing the World’s Most Pressing Economic Challenges – Podcast with IMF’s Christine Lagarde
July 26, 2017
What are the economic, political, and technological risks to future global growth and stability? This complex question was the topic of a recent conversation between IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and CGD’s president Masood Ahmed. This week’s podcast is an edited version of their conversati...
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The G20’s Commitment to Basel III: How will Emerging Markets be Affected? A New CGD Working Group Investigates
July 13, 2017
CGD is establishing a high-level Working Group, composed of leading experts on Basel III and economic development, that will identify challenges for emerging markets’ financial stability and development derived from the global implementation of Basel III. Effective and appropriate implementati...
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Financial Stability Board Echoes CGD Finding on Decline in Correspondent Banking
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Jim Woodsome
July 10, 2017
The Financial Stability Board's long-awaited report finds that the number of active CBRs has declined by 6 percent since 2011 and has continued through 2016, affecting all regions and major international currencies. The analysis suggests that small economies are among the most affected by C...
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"The History of Supporting Development is a History of Learning" – Podcast with New CGD President Masood Ahmed
February 02, 2017
Meet Masood Ahmed, CGD’s new president. On his first CGD Podcast, Ahmed shares some of the development lessons he's learned in his 35-year career and suggests ways for the development community to move forward in a new era of nationalism.