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src="/web/20091007165633im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/reports/Start_with_a_Girl.jpg" alt="Start with a Girl" width="200" height="260"/></a>In a pathbreaking follow-up to the 2008 report <i>Girls Count</i>, Miriam Temin and CGD vice president Ruth Levine shed light on girls’ health worldwide and its impact on the wellbeing and productivity of girls, their families, and their nations. <i>Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health</i> highlights successful efforts to break the cycle of ill health and proposes a comprehensive, practical global health agenda that starts with adolescent girls.</p> <p><a class="more" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1422899/">READ MORE</a></p></div> </div>  </div> <div class="listitem"> <div class="featureSub"> <h3> <a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/general/detail/1422904" title="<a href="http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/10/cgd-task-force-supports-imf-financial-access-initiative.php">CGD Task Force Supports IMF Financial Access Initiative</a>"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007165633/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/10/cgd-task-force-supports-imf-financial-access-initiative.php">CGD Task Force Supports IMF Financial Access Initiative</a></a> </h3> <div class="description"> <p><a title="Audience at launch of IMF Access to Finance Project" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007165633/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/10/cgd-task-force-supports-imf-financial-access-initiative.php"><img class="bookcover left" src="/web/20091007165633im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/WEEKLY_NEWSLETTER/Straus_Kahn_event.jpg" alt="Audience members pose questions during the IMF/World Bank Annual meetings in Istanbul" width="200" height="161"/></a>CGD senior fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez welcomes an IMF initiative to collect and share national data on the reach of financial services. The IMF data collection effort, announced in Istanbul, will accelerate global implementation of one of the key recommendations of a new CGD task force report that identified ten principles for increasing financial service access.</p> <p><a class="more" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007165633/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/10/cgd-task-force-supports-imf-financial-access-initiative.php">READ THE BLOG AND COMMENT</a></p></div> </div>  </div> <div class="listitem"> <div class="featureSub"> <h3> <a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/general/detail/1422903" title="<a href="http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/09/the-u-s-dilemma-over-how-to-help-zimbabwe-some-ideas-from-my-congressional-testimony.php">Senate Testimony: How to Help Zimbabwe</a>"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007165633/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/09/the-u-s-dilemma-over-how-to-help-zimbabwe-some-ideas-from-my-congressional-testimony.php">Senate Testimony: How to Help Zimbabwe</a></a> </h3> <div class="description"> <p><a title="Todd Moss testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007165633/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/09/the-u-s-dilemma-over-how-to-help-zimbabwe-some-ideas-from-my-congressional-testimony.php"><img class="bookcover left" src="/web/20091007165633im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/WEEKLY_NEWSLETTER/Todd_Testimony.jpg" alt="Todd Moss testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs" width="200" height="160"/></a>Todd Moss, CGD senior fellow and vice president for corporate affairs, told a Senate hearing that the United States should support Zimbabwe’s recovery without emboldening negative elements in the governing coalition—a reference to President Robert Mugabe and his followers. One idea: make Zimbabwe a focus country for PEPFAR and the President’s Malaria Initiative and channel money through contractors who can ensure that aid reaches the people who need it.</p> <p><a class="more" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007165633/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/09/the-u-s-dilemma-over-how-to-help-zimbabwe-some-ideas-from-my-congressional-testimony.php">READ THE BLOG AND COMMENT</a></p></div> </div>  </div>  <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" id="content-highlight"> <tr> <td width="49%"> <div class="header-darker">Latest</div> </td> <td width="2%"></td> <td width="49%"> <div class="header-darker">CGD Blogs <span style="color: #666; font-weight: normal">Recent Posts</span></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="boxBorder"> <div class="boxText"> <h3><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/?type=1">New from CGD</a></h3> <ul> <li><a 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(Could Governance Be Part of the Problem?)</a> 03/20/2009</li> </ul> <br/> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td valign="top" width="220" id="content-col2"> <div class="related"> <h2>Initiatives</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/reformingtradepreferences">Reforming Trade Preferences</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/assistance">Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/scottfellows">Scott Family Liberia Fellows</a></li> </ul> <p class="right"><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/" class="more">More Initiatives</a></p> </div> <div class="related"> <h2>Upcoming Events</h2> <ul> <li><strong>October 7, 2009</strong><br/><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1422870/">Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health</a></li> <li><strong>October 7, 2009</strong><br/><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1422886/">L'etat c'est moi: Do State and Individual Donors Behave the Same?</a></li> </ul> <p class="right"><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/calendar/?segment=upcoming" class="more">More upcoming events</a></p> <p class="right"><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/calendar/?segment=past" class="more">past events</a></p> </div> <div class="related"> <h2>Multimedia</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1422891/">Growing Pains in Latin America (event audio)</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1422856/">Growing Pains in Latin America: An Interview with Liliana Rojas-Suarez on new book (in English and en Espanol)</a></li> </ul> <p class="right"><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/multimedia/" class="more">More Multimedia</a></p> </div> <div class="related"> <h2>Meet CGD Experts</h2> <div> <img src="/web/20091007165633im_/http://www.cgdev.org/files/2708_file_RuthLevinetb.jpg" alt="Ruth Levine" class="left top"> <p><strong><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2708/">Ruth Levine</a></strong></p> <em>Vice President for Programs and Operations, and Senior Fellow</em><br/> <p>Ruth Levine is an internationally recognized expert on global health and health policy. She is a health economist with more than 15 years of experience designing and assessing the effects of social sector programs in Latin America, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. In addition to serving as CGD's vice president for programs and operations, she leads the Center's work on global health policy, including chairing a series of working groups on key policy and finance constraints to the effective use of donor funding for health programs in low-income countries.</p> </div> <p style="clear: both;"><strong>Selected Works</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1422899/">Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health</a> (CGD, 2009)</li><li><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1422178">Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls</a> (CGD, 2009)</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1421429/">UNAIDS: Preparing for the Future</a> (CGD, 2009)</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15154">Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda </a> (CGD, 2008)</li> <h3>Blogs</h3> <p>Read Ruth Levine's Author Archives:<br/> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007165633/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/author/ruth-levine"><strong>Views from the Center</strong></a> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007165633/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globalhealth/author/ruth-levine"><strong>Global Health Policy</strong></a></ul> </p> <p class="right"><a class="more" href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2708/">More About Expert</a></p> <p class="right"><a href="/web/20091007165633/http://www.cgdev.org/section/experts/" class="more">See other experts</a></p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <div id="footer"> <p style="float: right; width: 400px; text-align: right;">1800 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Third Floor, Washington DC 20036<br/>Tel 202.416.4000 | Fax 202.416.4050</p> <p>© 2009 Center for Global Development.<p> <div class="clear-fix"></div> </div>  </div>  <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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