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display){ var link = name + "@" + address if(!display) { display = link; } document.write("<a href='mailto:" + link + "'>" + display + "</a>"); } </script> <div id="info" style="width: 0; display: inline; float: none;"> <div id="job-title">President</div> <div style="padding-bottom: 8px;">Development economics, globalism and inequality, the aid system, international financial institutions, education, Latin America, climate financing</div> <div id="email"><strong>Email:</strong> <script>protect("president", "cgdev.org");</script>  | <div id="twitter-url" style="display: inline;font-size: 12px;"><a onclick="pageTracker._trackEvent('expert_page', 'twitter follow click');" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://twitter.com/nancymbirdsall">Follow me on Twitter</a></div> </div> <div id="education" style="padding-top: 0px;"><strong>Education:</strong> Ph.D., Yale University, 1979; M.A., Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 1969; B.A., Newton College of the Sacred Heart, 1967</div> <div id="full-cv" style="margin-left: 194px;"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/doc/CV-Jan-2011-birdsall.pdf">Full CV</a> <span id="high-res-photo"> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/expert phtotos/Birdsall.JPG">High Res Photo</a> </span> </div> <div id="media-contact"><strong>Media Contact:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/mailto:jbrinton@cgdev.org">Jessica Brinton</a></div> <p>Nancy Birdsall is the Center for Global Development's founding president. From 1993 to 1998, she was executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank, the largest of the regional development banks, where she oversaw a $30 billion public and private loan portfolio. Before that she worked 14 years in research, policy, and management positions at the World Bank, including as director of the Policy Research Department.</p> <p>She is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and over 100 articles in scholarly journals and monographs. Shorter pieces of her writing have appeared in dozens of U.S. and Latin American newspapers and periodicals. Birdsall received her Ph.D. from Yale University and her M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Prior to launching the Center, she served for three years as Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where her work focused on globalization, inequality and the reform of the international financial institutions.</p></div> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="tabbed-navigation"> <div class="tabs"> <span class="tab newest active" rel="newest" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('expert_page', 'tab click', 'newest');">New</span> <span class="tab popular" rel="popular" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('expert_page', 'tab click', 'popular');">Popular</span> <span class="tab" rel="workingpapers" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('expert_page', 'tab click', 'workingpapers');">Working Papers</span> <span class="tab" rel="books" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('expert_page', 'tab click', 'books');">Books</span> <span class="tab" rel="publications" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('expert_page', 'tab click', 'publications');">Other CGD Pubs</span> <span class="tab" rel="events" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('expert_page', 'tab click', 'events');">Events</span> <span class="tab " rel="selected" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('expert_page', 'tab click', 'selected works');">Selected Works</span> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="tab-box newest active"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425847_image_open_letter_50.png&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425847">U.S. Support for Pakistan’s Private Sector (Sixth Open Letter on U.S. Development Policy in Pakistan)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 6, 2012</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Nancy Birdsall offers Deputy Secretary of State Thomas R. Nides three recommendations on strengthening the Pakistani private sector.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425667_image_perakis.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1425667"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://blogs.cgdev.org/global_prosperity_wonkcast/2011/11/14/measuring-the-quality-of-aid-quoda-%e2%80%93-homi-kharas-and-rita-perakis/">Measuring the Quality of Aid (QuODA) – Homi Kharas and Rita Perakis</a></a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 14, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>On November 29th, aid donor and recipients will convene in Busan, South Korea at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. In this week’s Wonkcast, I speak with Homi Kharas, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Rita Perakis, program coordinator at the Center for Global ...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425642_image_Quoda_Busan_brief.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425642">Measuring the Quality of Aid: QuODA Second Edition (Brief for the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Busan, South Korea)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 14, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>This brief provides a summary of the forthcoming second edition of the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) Assessment sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425599_image_open_letter_50.png&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425599">World Bank Program for Results Financing (Open Letter to Senator Leahy)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 18, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Nancy Birdsall urges Senator Leahy to support approval by the United States of the proposed new lending instrument at the World Bank, Program for Results Financing (P4R).</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425507_image_Fair_deal.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425507">Identifying a Fair Deal on Climate Change</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 5, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Nancy Birdsall and Arvind Subramanian identify a fair deal on climate change for developed and developing countries by focusing not on equitable emissions quotas but on fair access to energy services.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425187_image_Beyond_Bullets_and_Bombs_Pak_Report.JPG&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1425187">Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan (Event Video)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 7, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Fallout from the killing of Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani garrison town has prompted an anxious reassessment of all facets of the complex, troubled alliance between the United States and Pakistan. A new report from CGD’s Study Group on U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan shines light on a...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425116">History of U.S. Aid and Reimbursements to Pakistan (Data Set)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 1, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>An accompaniment to the report Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan, this data set describes budgeted levels of U.S. military and economic assistance to Pakistan for the period from 1948 to 2010.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425136_image_Pakistan_report.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425136">Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 1, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>In a new CGD report, U.S. and Pakistani development experts urge a substantial revamp of the U.S. approach to Pakistan, saying that U.S. efforts to build prosperity in the nuclear-armed nation with a fledgling democratic government, burgeoning youth population, and shadowy intelligence services are...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425148_image_birdsall170.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1425148"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://blogs.cgdev.org/global_prosperity_wonkcast/2011/05/31/imf-leadership-struggle-and-cgd-survey-results-nancy-birdsall/"> IMF Leadership Struggle and CGD Survey Results: Nancy Birdsall</a></a> <span class="item-date"> - May 31, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>The sudden resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has sparked a global debate over the selection of the next head of the International Monetary Fund. French finance minister Christine Legarde, Europe’s nominee, has launched a round-the-world tour to promote her candidacy. Meanwhile, Agustin...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425092_image_Birdsall_Lustig_McLeod_cover.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425092">Declining Inequality in Latin America: Some Economics, Some Politics - Working Paper 251</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 19, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>New research shows that inequality in Latin America is falling. In this paper, the authors summarize recent findings, analyze the affect of different regimes, and investigate the relationship between inequality and changes in the size of the middle class in the region. They conclude with some...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <ul> </div> <div class="tab-box popular"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425642_image_Quoda_Busan_brief.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425642">Measuring the Quality of Aid: QuODA Second Edition (Brief for the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Busan, South Korea)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 14, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>This brief provides a summary of the forthcoming second edition of the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) Assessment sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423949_image_cash_on_delivery.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423949">Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 16, 2010</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes serious reform to make aid work well by forcing accountability, aligning the objectives of funders and recipients, and sharing information about what works.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425507_image_Fair_deal.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425507">Identifying a Fair Deal on Climate Change</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 5, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Nancy Birdsall and Arvind Subramanian identify a fair deal on climate change for developed and developing countries by focusing not on equitable emissions quotas but on fair access to energy services.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424481_image_Quoda_cover_2.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424481">Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment (report)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 5, 2010</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>QuODA is an assessment of the Quality of Official Development Assistance provided by 23 countries and more than 150 aid countries.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> </div> <div style=""> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1420910">CGD Special Discussion with David Gergen on Obama's Global Development Policy (Event Video)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 17, 2009</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, editor-at-large at U.S. News & World Report, and a senior political analyst for CNN, David Gergen joined CGD president Nancy Birdsall, and CGD senior fellows who authored essays in our...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425136_image_Pakistan_report.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425136">Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 1, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>In a new CGD report, U.S. and Pakistani development experts urge a substantial revamp of the U.S. approach to Pakistan, saying that U.S. efforts to build prosperity in the nuclear-armed nation with a fledgling democratic government, burgeoning youth population, and shadowy intelligence services are...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> </div> <div style=""> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424882">The Post-Washington Consensus: Development after the Crisis - Working Paper 244</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 3, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>The last time a global depression originated in the United States, the impact was devastating not only for the world economy but for world politics as well. The Great Depression set the stage for a shift away from strict monetarism and laissez-faire policies toward Keynesian demand management. More...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425092_image_Birdsall_Lustig_McLeod_cover.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425092rt">Declining Inequality in Latin America: Some Economics, Some Politics - Working Paper 251</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 19, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>New research shows that inequality in Latin America is falling. In this paper, the authors summarize recent findings, analyze the affect of different regimes, and investigate the relationship between inequality and changes in the size of the middle class in the region. They conclude with some...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> </div> <div style=""> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2844">Education and the Developing World</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 12, 2006</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Given all the other pressing worries, why was education among the issues that G8 leaders discussed at the St. Petersburg Summit? Education and the Developing World, a CGD Rich World/Poor World Brief, explains why investing in education is not just the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do....</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425599_image_open_letter_50.png&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425599">World Bank Program for Results Financing (Open Letter to Senator Leahy)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 18, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Nancy Birdsall urges Senator Leahy to support approval by the United States of the proposed new lending instrument at the World Bank, Program for Results Financing (P4R).</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="tab-box workingpapers"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425092_image_Birdsall_Lustig_McLeod_cover.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425092/">Declining Inequality in Latin America: Some Economics, Some Politics - Working Paper 251</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 19, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> New research shows that inequality in Latin America is falling. In this paper, the authors summarize recent findings, analyze the affect of different regimes, and investigate the relationship between inequality and changes in the size of the middle class in the region. They conclude with some... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424979_image_Find_Me_the_Money.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424979/">Find Me the Money: Financing Climate and Other Global Public Goods - Working Paper 248</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 6, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this working paper, the authors examine four categories of existing resource-mobilization options and recommend which might best be used to finance global public goods. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424882/">The Post-Washington Consensus: Development after the Crisis - Working Paper 244</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 3, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The last time a global depression originated in the United States, the impact was devastating not only for the world economy but for world politics as well. The Great Depression set the stage for a shift away from strict monetarism and laissez-faire policies toward Keynesian demand management. More... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424155_image_washington_consensus.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424155/">The Washington Consensus: Assessing a Damaged Brand - Working Paper 213</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 4, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Nancy Birdsall, Augusto de la Torre, and Felipe Valencia Caicedo analyze the Washington Consensus, from its early beginnings to failure as a reform agenda. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423994_image_the_indispensable_middle_class.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423994/">The (Indispensable) Middle Class in Developing Countries; or, The Rich and the Rest, Not the Poor and the Rest - Working Paper 207</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 26, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Nancy Birdsall argues that the concept of inclusive growth should go beyond the traditional emphasis on the poor (and the rest) and take into account changes in the size and economic command of the group conventionally defined as neither poor nor rich, that is, the middle class. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423965/">The U.S. Aid “Surge” to Pakistan: Repeating a Failed Experiment? Lessons for U.S. Policymakers from the World Bank’s Social-Sector Lending in the 1990s - Working Paper 205</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 17, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This working paper re-releases a 2005 CGD analysis of failed World Bank aid to Pakistan in the 1990s and identifies the lessons that are relevant today, as aid to Pakistan surges again. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423356.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423356/">It's One Climate Policy World Out There--Almost - Working Paper 195</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 7, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> With the Copenhagen climate talks finally underway, a CGD survey of 500 development and climate aficionados in 88 countries finds unexpected agreement about what should be done—and important differences between respondents from developed and developing countries about how an agreement should be... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423191.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423191/">Energy Needs and Efficiency, Not Emissions: Re-framing the Climate Change Narrative - Working Paper 187</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 9, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The paper proposes a new narrative on climate equity that emphasize basic energy needs and the equality of access to energy opportunities rather than emissions. It advocates abandoning the setting of emissions targets and instead developing a framework where all countries contribute to maximizing... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1421333/">Schooling Inequality, Crises, and Financial Liberalization in Latin America - Working Paper 165</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 21, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This working paper examines the relationship between high inequality and liberalization of the financial sector in Latin America from 1975 to 2000. Using panel data, the authors find that increases in financial liberalization were associated with bank crises and other domestic and external shocks,... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14696/">Reflections on the Macro Foundations of the Middle Class in the Developing World - Working Paper 130</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 24, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Shared growth—growth that helps to build a middle class—is now widely embraced as a central economic goal for developing countries. In this new working paper CGD president Nancy Birdsall reviews how macroeconomic policies shape incentives for inclusive growth, focusing on fiscal... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13505/">Income Distribution: Effects on Growth and Development - Working Paper 118</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 16, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this new working paper, CGD president Nancy Birdsall reviews a large body of work, primarily of economists, that shows that high levels of inequality in developing countries are likely to inhibit growth. She argues that high income inequality can discourage the evolution of the economic and... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13115/">Do No Harm: Aid, Weak Institutions, and the Missing Middle in Africa - Working Paper 113</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 8, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Does aid to Africa undermine the emergence of a robust African middle class? If so, what can be done about it? In this new working paper, CGD president Nancy Birdsall argues that high and unpredictable aid flows could be making life harder for Africa's small and medium-sized businesses by, for... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/11550/">Payments for Progress: A Hands-Off Approach to Foreign Aid - Working Paper 102</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 4, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The aid business has long grappled with the trade-off between showing results and supporting a country's own institution-building. Donors want to be sure that their money makes a difference, and often quickly. But close monitoring raises costs and pushing for quick results leads to projects that... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/6284/">Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy<br> - Working Paper 81</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 16, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Does openness in trade and the free flow of capital promote growth for the poor? In this new working paper, CGD president Nancy Birdsall describes asymmetries in globalization and their implications for poverty reduction. She argues that poor countries lack effective social contracts, progressive... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/5853/">A Stability and Social Investment Facility for High Debt Countries<br>-Working Paper 77</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 20, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Nancy Birdsall and Kemal Dervis propose that a "Stability and Social Investment Facility" be housed either at the IMF or the World Bank to offer emerging market economies with high debt-burdens lonas on a concessional basis. Read this CGD Working Paper to see how this Facility would be a useful... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2737/">Seven Deadly Sins: Reflections on Donor Failings - Working Paper Number 50</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 8, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In the face of continuing development challenges in the world's poorest countries, there have been new calls throughout the donor community to increase the volume of development aid. Equal attention is needed to reform of the aid business itself, that is, the practices and processes and procedures... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2739/">Underfunded Regionalism in the Developing World - Working Paper Number 49</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 23, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper argues that regional public goods in developing countries are under-funded despite their potentially high rates of return compared to traditional country-focused investments. In Africa the under-funding of regional public goods is primarily a political and institutional challenge to be... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2743/">Beyond HIPC: Secure Sustainable Debt Relief for Poor Countries - Working Paper Number 46</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 27, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In 1999, the United States and other major donor countries supported an historic expansion of the heavily indebted poor country (HIPC) debt relief initiative. Three years after the initiative came into existence, we are beginning to see the apparent impact that HIPC is having, particularly on... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2741/">Double-Standards, Debt Treatment, and World Bank Country Classification: The Case of Nigeria - Working Paper Number 45</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 1, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Nigeria is currently classified by the World Bank as a ‘blend’ country, making it the poorest country in the world that does not have ‘IDA-only’ status. This paper uses the World Bank’s own IDA eligibility criteria to assess whether Nigeria has a case for reclassification. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2761/">Economic Policy and Wage Differentials in Latin America - Working Paper 29</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 29, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper applies a new approach to the estimation of the impact of policy, both the levels and the changes, on wage differentials using a new high-quality data set on wage differentials by schooling level for 18 Latin American countries for the period 1977–1998. The results indicate that... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2766/">Bootstraps not Band-Aids: Poverty, Equity and Social Policy in Latin America - Working Paper 24</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 24, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> After a decade of economic reforms that dramatically altered the structure of economies in Latin America, making them more open and more competitive, and a decade of substantial increases in public spending on education, health and other social programs in virtually all countries, poverty and high... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2768/">Why it Matters Who Runs the IMF and the World Bank - Working Paper 22</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 1, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this paper I set out the economic logic for why good global economic governance matters for reducing poverty and inequality and argue that a step towards better global governance would be better representation of developing countries in global and regional financial institutions. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2769/">From Social Policy to an Open-Economy <br>Social Contract in Latin America - Working Paper 21</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 21, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> I suggest in this paper the logic of going beyond the standard, poverty-targeted, elements of good social policy to a modern social contract adapted to the demands and the constraints of an open economy. Such a contract would be explicitly based on broad job-based growth. Second, it would be... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2773/">Policy Selectivity Foregone: Debt and Donor Behavior in Africa - Working Paper 17</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 30, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> We assess the dynamic behind the high net resource transfers of donors and creditors, IDA, bilaterals, IBRD, IMF and other multilateral creditors to the countries of sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Analyzing a panel of 37 recipient countries over the years 1978-98, we find that net... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2775/">Asymmetric Globalization: Global Markets Require Good Global Politics - Working Paper 12</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 18, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The paper sets out two views of the facts about the effects of globalization on world poverty and inequality. The bottom line: globalization is not the cause, but neither is it the solution to world poverty and inequality. The paper then explores why and how the global economy is stacked against... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2783/">Commodity Dependence, Trade, and Growth: When "Openness" is Not Enough - Working Paper 7</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 2, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this paper we argue that neither the level nor the change in a country's trade/GDP ratio can be taken as an indication of the "openness" of a country's trade policy. In particular, we examine the ways in which terms of trade shifts have affected trade/GDP ratio over the past two decades, and... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2784/">Winners and Losers: Assessing<br> the Distributional Impacts of Privatization - Working Paper 6</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 1, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> While most technical assessments classify privatization as a success, it remains widely and increasingly unpopular, largely because of the perception that it is fundamentally unfair, both in conception and execution. We review the increasing (but still uneven) literature and conclude that most... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2788/">HIV/AIDS and the Accumulation and Utilization of Human Capital in Africa - Working Paper 2</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 2, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper outlines the likely effects of the AIDS pandemic in Africa on the continent's ability to produce education and use it effectively for growth and poverty reduction. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="tab-box books"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423949_image_cash_on_delivery.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423949/">Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 16, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes serious reform to make aid work well by forcing accountability, aligning the objectives of funders and recipients, and sharing information about what works. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/16560_image_hp_potus_cover_thumb.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16560/">The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 22, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President shows how modest changes in U.S. policies could greatly improve the lives of poor people in developing countries, thus fostering greater stability, security, and prosperity globally and at home. Center for Global... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15192/">Fair Growth: Economic Policies for Latin America's Poor and Middle-Income Majority</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 17, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In an increasingly globalized world, inequality is an issue of rising concern, especially in Latin America, home to many of the world's most unequal societies. This new book, co-published by the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue, describes the links between recent growth... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/9957/">Rescuing the World Bank</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 5, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Critics allege that the World Bank is deeply flawed. Yet the world needs a strong World Bank to help manage development and the related global challenges of the 21st century. Do the Bank's shortcomings put its future at risk? If so, can the Bank be rescued? Rescuing the World Bank, a new book that... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/7867_image_ShortoftheGoal.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/7867/">Short of the Goal: U.S. Policy and Poorly Performing States</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 23, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This new collection of essays sets an agenda for increased American effectiveness in dealing with failed states to promote economic development and international security. It includes an overview of the poorly understood challenge of weak and failed states and case studies by regional policy... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/4520_image_RealityCheck72.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/4520/">Reality Check: The Distributional Impact of Privatization <br> in Developing Countries</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 17, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Most studies of privatization look at what happens to companies. Reality Check, a new volume of case studies from Latin America, Asia, and the former Soviet Union, examines the impact on people. Surprise: privatization has often been a reasonably good thing, even for the poor. Read a Q&A; with lead... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2876_image_cover_Financing_Development.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2876/">Financing Development: The Power of Regionalism</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 1, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The historic 2002 United Nations Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, overlooked a crucial question: regionalism. Financing Development: The Power of Regionalism is designed to correct this omission. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2922_image_delivering_cover.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2922/">Delivering on Debt Relief: <br>From IMF Gold to a New Aid Architecture</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 10, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This study brings readers up to date on the complicated and controversial subject of debt relief for the poorest countries of the world. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2923_image_washcont.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2923/">Washington Contentious: Economic Policies for Social Equity in Latin America</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 1, 2001</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> At the end of the 1990s the future of Latin America seemed grim in the face of four devastating problems—slow and unsteady economic growth, persistent poverty, social injustice, and personal insecurity. For 10 years Latin America had pursued—with considerable vigor—the 10 economic policies... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="tab-box publications"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425847_image_open_letter_50.png&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425847/">U.S. Support for Pakistan’s Private Sector (Sixth Open Letter on U.S. Development Policy in Pakistan)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 6, 2012</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Nancy Birdsall offers Deputy Secretary of State Thomas R. Nides three recommendations on strengthening the Pakistani private sector. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425642_image_Quoda_Busan_brief.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425642/">Measuring the Quality of Aid: QuODA Second Edition (Brief for the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Busan, South Korea)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 14, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This brief provides a summary of the forthcoming second edition of the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) Assessment sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425599_image_open_letter_50.png&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425599/">World Bank Program for Results Financing (Open Letter to Senator Leahy)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 18, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Nancy Birdsall urges Senator Leahy to support approval by the United States of the proposed new lending instrument at the World Bank, Program for Results Financing (P4R). </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425507_image_Fair_deal.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425507/">Identifying a Fair Deal on Climate Change</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 5, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Nancy Birdsall and Arvind Subramanian identify a fair deal on climate change for developed and developing countries by focusing not on equitable emissions quotas but on fair access to energy services. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425116/">History of U.S. Aid and Reimbursements to Pakistan (Data Set)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 1, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> An accompaniment to the report Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan, this data set describes budgeted levels of U.S. military and economic assistance to Pakistan for the period from 1948 to 2010. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425136_image_Pakistan_report.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425136/">Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 1, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In a new CGD report, U.S. and Pakistani development experts urge a substantial revamp of the U.S. approach to Pakistan, saying that U.S. efforts to build prosperity in the nuclear-armed nation with a fledgling democratic government, burgeoning youth population, and shadowy intelligence services are... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424912/">COD Aid: Transfers for Transformation (Presentation)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 14, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In a presentation delivered at the UK Department for International Development on March 9, 2011, CGD president Nancy Birdsall spoke about opportunities and challenges for the implementation of Cash on Delivery Aid, an approach that allows aid agencies to address both short-term and long-term... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424744_image_Birdsall_Elhai_shared_goals.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424744/">Shared Goals: Measuring <i>Overall</i> Development Progress in Pakistan</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 14, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> A new focus on measuring development results would have far-reaching benefits for U.S. development strategy, for U.S. public diplomacy efforts, and for the strength of Pakistan’s democratic institutions. In this essay, Nancy Birdsall and Wren Elhai suggest five possible indicators that... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424603_image_COD_Aid_brief_200.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424603/">Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid (brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 15, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This brief describes a new approach, Cash on Delivery Aid, which gives recipients full responsibility and authority over funds paid in proportion to verified measures of progress. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424481_image_Quoda_cover_2.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424481/">Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment (report)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 5, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> QuODA is an assessment of the Quality of Official Development Assistance provided by 23 countries and more than 150 aid countries. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424466_image_open_letter_50.png&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424466/">U.S. Development Assistance to Pakistan’s Education Sector (Fifth Open Letter to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 28, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The fifth in a series of open letters, CGD president Nancy Birdsall outlines five recommendations on how U.S. development assistance to Pakistan’s education sector can be improved. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424399_image_cover.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424399/">Beyond Short-Term Thinking: How to Spend Billions Well in Pakistan, for Them and for Us</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 1, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This essay draws on the work of the Center for Global Development's Study Group on U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan and on the ideas in the group's open letters to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke to present five recommendations for spending aid money well in Pakistan. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424249_image_fourth_holbrooke_letter_thumbnail.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424249/">Adequate Staffing of the Development Assistance Program in Pakistan (Fourth open letter to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 23, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In the fourth open letter to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Nancy Birdsall conveys the recommendations of the CGD study group on a U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan for necessary strengthening of USAID's staff capacity to better design and deploy an effective development strategy in the country. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424155_image_washington_consensus.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424155/">The Washington Consensus: Assessing a Damaged Brand - Working Paper 213</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 4, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Nancy Birdsall, Augusto de la Torre, and Felipe Valencia Caicedo analyze the Washington Consensus, from its early beginnings to failure as a reform agenda. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424170_image_pub2.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424170/">U.S. Development Assistance to Pakistan’s Energy Sector (Third open letter to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke)</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 25, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In the third open letter to Ambassador Holbrooke, Nancy Birdsall conveys recommendations from the third meeting of the CGD Study Group on U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan, focused energy policy. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424103_image_letter_to_ambassador_holbrooke.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424103/">U.S. Development Assistance to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Second open letter to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke)</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 3, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In the second open letter to Ambassador Holbrooke, Nancy Birdsall conveys recommendations from the second meeting of the CGD Study Group on U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan, focused on the policies and programs that would be most effective in dealing with the security and development... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424036_image_holbrooke_first_letter.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424036/">U.S. Development Assistance to Pakistan (Open letter to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 29, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In an open letter to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Nancy Birdsall relays four main suggestions from the CGD Study Group on a U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan about how U.S. assistance should be delivered to maximize development outcomes. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423973/">Rebuilding Haiti's Competitiveness and Private Sector - Congressional Testimony</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 18, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Nancy Birdsall testifies before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade on rebuilding Haiti's competitiveness and private sector. March 16, 2010. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423413/">Foreign Policy Implications of U.S. Efforts to Address the International Financial Crisis: TARP, TALF, and the G-20 Plan -- Testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 10, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> CGD president Nancy Birdsall testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade as Congress considers how best to support the spirit of the G-20 commitments and global economic recovery. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423416/">Implications of the G-20 Leaders Summit for -- Testimony for the House Financial Services Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 13, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> CGD president Nancy Birdsall testifies before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade about the implications of the recent G-20 meeting in London. She reiterates the need for the United States to support the IMF and push for its reform. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1421143/">How to Unlock the $1 Trillion that Developing Countries Urgently Need to Cope with the Crisis</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 17, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Five billion people in developing countries are innocent victims of the global economic crisis. How well they cope will be crucial to sustained global recovery. In this CGD Note, Nancy Birdsall estimates that developing countries may need $1 trillion for bank rescues, for fiscal stimulus, and to... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/967322/">The Age of Turbulence and Poor Countries: The Case for MDB Help with Risk Management</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 17, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The global financial crisis and economic slowdown are subjecting poor countries to increased financial, price, and output volatility. How can the multilateral development banks help? A new CGD brief by visiting fellow Nancy Lee, non-resident fellow Guillermo Perry, and CGD president Nancy Birdsall... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/967261/">Aid for Education: More Bang for the Buck (White House and the World Policy Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 4, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Improving education should be a part of the global development agenda of the next U.S. president. While aid for primary education has always appealed to U.S. policymakers and the public and is consistent with American values of expanding opportunity for all, U.S. aid for education has... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/967258/">Why Global Development Matters and What the Next U.S. President Should Do About It (White House and the World Policy Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 4, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The need for a fresh American approach to development has never been more urgent. The economic crisis at home, the threat of failed states and hostile countries acquiring nuclear weapons, our inability to solve critical global problems like climate change alone—all these mean that America... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423420/">Foreign Assistance in the Americas: Testimony for the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 16, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Testimony for the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/16560_image_hp_potus_cover_thumb.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16560/">The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 22, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President shows how modest changes in U.S. policies could greatly improve the lives of poor people in developing countries, thus fostering greater stability, security, and prosperity globally and at home. Center for Global... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16551/">A Little Less Talk: Six Steps to Get Some Action from the Accra Agenda</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 21, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In September 2008 official aid donors and recipients will meet in Accra, Ghana, to discuss how to make development assistance more effective. CGD president Nancy Birdsall and co-author Kate Vyborny suggest that advocates of better aid who really want a win at Accra forget haggling over broad... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423451/">Building on International Debt Relief Initiatives: Testimony for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 24, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Testimony for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15192/">Fair Growth: Economic Policies for Latin America's Poor and Middle-Income Majority</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 17, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In an increasingly globalized world, inequality is an issue of rising concern, especially in Latin America, home to many of the world's most unequal societies. This new book, co-published by the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue, describes the links between recent growth... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14625/">From World Bank to World Development Cooperative</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 15, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this CGD Essay, Birdsall and Subramianian argue that the World Bank faces twin crises of relevance and legitimacy in a rapidly changing world. The solution, they argue, is for the bank to become a more active catalyst for generating global public goods and knowledge and a more reluctant lender... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14375/">Poverty and Inequality in Latin America: How the U.S. Can Really Help</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 10, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> For the past decade, U.S. attention to Latin America has focused mainly on promotion of free trade and opposition to narcotics trafficking and security threats. But there are signs that Washington is beginning to recognize the importance of helping the region tackle longstanding poverty and social... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14002/">A White House Focus on Social Justice in Latin America?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 9, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> A White House conference on social justice in Latin America this week may signal a shift to U.S. engagement with the region that goes beyond security, free trade, and anti-narcotics efforts. CGD president Nancy Birdsall and Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, suggest seven ways... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13749/">The World Bank: Toward a Global Club</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 22, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this Essay, CGD president Nancy Birdsall describes the World Bank as a global club with a structure close to that of a credit union in which the members are nations. Its mission, as originally conceived–-to promote broadly shared and sustainable global prosperity--serves the common interests... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423455/">Nancy Birdsall testifies before House Foreign Affairs Committee about Poverty and Inequality in Latin America</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 29, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> On Wednesday, March 28, 2007, Nancy Birdsall testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Dr. Birdsall, who leads CGD's initiative on Globalization and Inequality, took this opportunity to explain how the U.S. can... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/9957/">Rescuing the World Bank</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 5, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Critics allege that the World Bank is deeply flawed. Yet the world needs a strong World Bank to help manage development and the related global challenges of the 21st century. Do the Bank's shortcomings put its future at risk? If so, can the Bank be rescued? Rescuing the World Bank, a new book that... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1420967/">Inequality and Development in a Globalizing World, Johns Hopkins University (Syllabus)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 26, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This syllabus, prepared by CGD President Nancy Birdsall for a course she taught in Bologna, Italy, for students of Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), brings together key readings on inequality and development in a globalizing world. The... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2851/">Global HIV/AIDS and the Developing World</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 15, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> HIV/AIDS is one of the largest challenges facing the global community. The disease has reduced life expectancy by more than a decade in the hardest hit countries and slashed productivity, making it even harder for poor countries to escape poverty. Global HIV/AIDS and the Developing World, a CGD... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2844/">Education and the Developing World</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 12, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Given all the other pressing worries, why was education among the issues that G8 leaders discussed at the St. Petersburg Summit? Education and the Developing World, a CGD Rich World/Poor World Brief, explains why investing in education is not just the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do.... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/7973/">When Will We Ever Learn? Improving Lives Through Impact Evaluation</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 31, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Each year billions of dollars are spent on thousands of programs to improve health, education and other social sector outcomes in the developing world. But very few programs benefit from studies that could determine whether or not they actually made a difference. This absence of evidence is an... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/7867_image_ShortoftheGoal.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/7867/">Short of the Goal: U.S. Policy and Poorly Performing States</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 23, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This new collection of essays sets an agenda for increased American effectiveness in dealing with failed states to promote economic development and international security. It includes an overview of the poorly understood challenge of weak and failed states and case studies by regional policy... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/5818/">A New Era at the Inter-American Development Bank<br>Six Recommendations for the New President</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 19, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This new report by a group comprising several of Latin America's most influential economic policymakers, CGD senior fellow Liliana Rojas Suarez, and CGD president Nancy Birdsall suggests ways for the IDB to become more flexible and to step up its support for market oriented reforms. The IDB's new... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/6237/">Reforming U.S. Development Policy</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 12, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> As the Bush Administration prepares to announce the reorganization of U.S. foreign assistance, Nancy Birdsall, Stewart Patrick and Milan Vaishnav argue in a new essay that making a dent in global poverty will require that the U.S. address four flaws: low volume and poor quality of aid; incoherence... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/3222/">Making it Pay to Stay in School</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 3, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This CGD brief is based on the book From Social Assistance to Social Development: Targeted Education Subsidies in Developing Countries, by Samuel Morley and David Coady. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423422/">Debt and Development: How to Provide Efficient, Effective Assistance to the World's Poorest Countries</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 8, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Nancy Birdsall testified in front of a subcommittee of the House Committee on Financial Services concerning debt relief and IMF gold. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2868/">The Hardest Job in the World: Five Crucial Tasks <br>for the New President of the World Bank</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 1, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This report was prepared by a Working Group convened by the Center for Global Development to identify key priorities the Paul Wolfowitz at the start of his tenure at the World Bank on June 1, 2005. It argues that Wolfowitz's biggest challenge will not be managing the Bank, with its 10,000 staff,... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423423/">Reflections on "Our Common Interest," The Report of the Commission on Africa</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 17, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> CGD President Nancy Birdsall testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 on the Commission for Africa report initiated by Tony Blair. She suggested the U.S. should prepare a package of Africa-related initiatives for the UK-hosted G-8 Summit in July covering... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/3097/">Gold for Debt: What's New and What Next?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 1, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This new CGD Note by Center for Global Development President Nancy Birdsall and Institute for International Economics Senior Fellow John Williamson argues that sale of a portion of IMF gold makes sense as a way to create a more transparent institution and use a global resource for debt relief for... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/3220/">No Child Left Behind-Anywhere</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 3, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> "No Child Left Behind" could move from a national program to a global mission if several current policies and initiatives converge: the Education for All Fast Track Initiative, the U.S. Millennium Challenge Account, and the renewed declarations of the Bush administration, supported by U.S. public... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2795/">Double Standards on IDA and Debt: The Case for Reclassifying Nigeria</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 1, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Although nearly all poor countries are classified by the World Bank as IDA-only, Nigeria stands out as a notable exception. Indeed, Africa’s most populous country is the poorest country in the world that is not classified as IDA-only. Under the World Bank’s own criteria, however, Nigeria has a... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2798/">On the Road to Universal Primary Education</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 28, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Education is an end in itself, a human right, and a vital part of the capacity of individuals to lead lives they value. It gives people in developing countries the skills they need to improve their own lives and to help transform their societies. Women and men with better education earn more... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2837/">Toward a New Social Contract in Latin America</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 28, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> his policy brief proposes a new job-based social contract, geared to the aspirations of the region’s vast majority of near-poor “middle” households, whose participation is key to achieving growth and strengthening democracy. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2876_image_cover_Financing_Development.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2876/">Financing Development: The Power of Regionalism</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 1, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The historic 2002 United Nations Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, overlooked a crucial question: regionalism. Financing Development: The Power of Regionalism is designed to correct this omission. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14140/">Whither Development Assistance? An Analysis of the President's 2005 Budget Request</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 30, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This note reviews the President’s 2005 international affairs budget request and offers insight into the potential MCA allocations in the context of the broader development assistance budget. The authors note that requested funding for the MCA is lower than promised and may be indirectly coming... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2858/">From Promise to Performance: How Rich Countries Can Help Poor Countries Help Themselves</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 1, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 the nations of the world committed to join forces to meet a set of measurable targets for reducing world poverty, disease, illiteracy and other indicators of human misery—all by the year 2015. These targets, later named the Millennium Development... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2769/">From Social Policy to an Open-Economy <br>Social Contract in Latin America - Working Paper 21</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 21, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> I suggest in this paper the logic of going beyond the standard, poverty-targeted, elements of good social policy to a modern social contract adapted to the demands and the constraints of an open economy. Such a contract would be explicitly based on broad job-based growth. Second, it would be... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14149/">Selecting For Success and Reaching the Poorest: MCA Eligibility Criteria Can Do Both</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 28, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this MCA Monitor Analysis Nancy Birdsall argues that the MCA principle of country eligibility based on performance has merit, and maintains that the application of eligibility criteria may not be as restrictive as some fear. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14156/">On Eligibility Criteria for the Millennium Challenge Account</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 12, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper defines two distinct and overarching objectives for the MCA and proposes 12 criteria for assessing recipient country eligibility. The authors recommend that the MCA be targeted to the poorest countries that are eligible for World Bank grants and concessional loans. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14158/">Guiding Principles for Design and Implementation of the MCA</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 1, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper defines seven principles to guide the design and implementation of the Millennium Challenge Account" (MCA), a new compact for development announced by President Bush in March. It assumes that MCA resources will be targeted to low-income countries that have limited, if any, access to... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14160/">How Does The Proposed Level of Foreign Economic Aid Under the Bush Budget Compare with Historical Levels? And What Would Be The Effects of Bush's New "Millennium Challenge Account"?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 20, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper examines trends in U.S. non-military global aid and how the administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2003 would affect those trends. The analysis addresses how the overall level of proposed aid compares with past levels and examines three standards for measuring aid over time:... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2922_image_delivering_cover.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2922/">Delivering on Debt Relief: <br>From IMF Gold to a New Aid Architecture</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 10, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This study brings readers up to date on the complicated and controversial subject of debt relief for the poorest countries of the world. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2862/">Delivering on Debt Relief</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 1, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Over the last several years, the United States and other major donor countries have supported a historic initiative to write down the official debts of a group of heavily indebted poor countries, or HIPCs. Donor countries had two primary goals in supporting debt relief: to reduce countries' debt... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2923_image_washcont.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2923/">Washington Contentious: Economic Policies for Social Equity in Latin America</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 1, 2001</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> At the end of the 1990s the future of Latin America seemed grim in the face of four devastating problems—slow and unsteady economic growth, persistent poverty, social injustice, and personal insecurity. For 10 years Latin America had pursued—with considerable vigor—the 10 economic policies... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="tab-box events"> <ul> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1425821/">Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance</a> <span class="item-date">- Jan 5, 2012</span> <div><p> The Center for Global Development  and Consultative Group to Assist the Poor present Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance Featuring the Author David Roodman Senior Fellow Center for Global Development Introductory Remarks by Nancy...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1425745/">2011 Commitment to Development “Ideas in Action” Award</a> <span class="item-date">- Dec 7, 2011</span> <div><p> The Center for Global Development and Foreign Policy Magazine present the 2011 Commitment to Development “Ideas in Action” Award Honoring 2011 Award Winner Geeta Rao Gupta Remarks and Introductions by Nancy Birdsall President, Center for Global Development and Susan...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1425612/">Achieving an AIDS Transition: Preventing Infections to Sustain Treatment</a> <span class="item-date">- Nov 16, 2011</span> <div><p> Center for Global Development presents Achieving an AIDS Transition: Preventing Infections to Sustain Treatment Featuring Mead Over Senior Fellow Center for Global Development With Discussants Laurie Garrett Senior Fellow on Global Health Council on Foreign...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1425620/">Emerging Issues in Today’s HIV Response: Treatment as Prevention</a> <span class="item-date">- Nov 10, 2011</span> <div><p>Emerging Issues in Today’s HIV Response A Debate Series Co-Hosted by the World Bank and USAID Treatment as Prevention Opening Remarks Michel Sidibé Executive Director of UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Under Secretary-General of the United...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1425102/">Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan</a> <span class="item-date">- Jun 1, 2011</span> <div><p>The Center for Global Development presents Beyond Bullets and Bombs Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan Panel #1 – Getting Back on Track: A Focused Aid Strategy Featuring Nancy Birdsall President Center for Global Development Shuja Nawaz Director of the South...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1424982/">Enabling Africa's Next Growth Decade: The G-20's Role in Supporting Infrastructure Development and Global Food Security</a> <span class="item-date">- Apr 15, 2011</span> <div><p>The Center for Global Development presents Enabling Africa's Next Growth Decade: The G-20's Role in Supporting Infrastructure Development and Global Food Security Introductory Remarks by Henri de Raincourt Minister for International Cooperation and Development Republic of France Nancy...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1424954/">The Sixth Annual Richard H. Sabot Lecture: Policies and Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight against Poverty?</a> <span class="item-date">- Apr 11, 2011</span> <div><p>Center for Global Development presents The Sixth Annual Richard H. Sabot Lecture Policies and Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight against Poverty? Featuring Professor Esther Duflo Massachussets Institute of Technology April 11, 2011 5:00pm--6:30pm Reception to...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1424904/">Twenty-first Century Multilateralism: The OECD in a G-20 World</a> <span class="item-date">- Mar 24, 2011</span> <div><p>The Center for Global Development presents Twenty-first Century Multilateralism: The OECD in a G-20 World Featuring  Angel Gurria  Secretary General, OECD Introduction and Commentary by Nancy Birdsall President, Center for Global Development Thursday, March 24,...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1424089/">Closing the Evaluation Gap: 3ie One Year On</a> <span class="item-date">- May 4, 2010</span> <div><p>Focusing on the role of rigorous evaluation in policy interventions and highlighting lessons learned from conditional cash transfer programs in the health and education sectors, the event will be an opportunity for dialogue between high-level policymakers and researchers to discuss the implications...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1423995/">Open Markets for the Poorest Countries: Trade Preferences That Work</a> <span class="item-date">- Apr 6, 2010</span> <div><p>Please join us for the launch event of the CGD working group report on global trade preference reform, Open Markets for the Poorest Countries: Trade Preferences That Work. Working group chair and CGD senior fellow Kimberly Elliott will present the report's recommendations and CGD president Nancy...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1423964/">Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid</a> <span class="item-date">- Mar 23, 2010</span> <div><p>Donor countries have committed to major increases in development assistance but doubts remain over how effective this aid is. At this launch of their new book, authors Nancy Birdsall, William Savedoff, and Ayah Mahgoub present Cash on Delivery Aid, an approach that links aid directly to outcomes...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1423938/">A New Way to Promote Economic Growth: Charter Cities</a> <span class="item-date">- Mar 15, 2010</span> <div><p>CGD non-resident fellow Paul Romer is a professor at Stanford University and is one of the leading growth economists of our time. He will discuss his idea for a profoundly new way to reduce poverty in the developing world: chartering new cities to create centers of growth and prosperity within...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1423701/">The 2009 Commitment to Development Ideas in Action Award</a> <span class="item-date">- Feb 5, 2010</span> <div><p>Please join us in honoring Diego Hidalgo Schnur, the 2009 winner of the Commitment to Development Ideas in Action Award, sponsored jointly by the Center for Global Development (CGD) and Foreign Policy magazine. Hidalgo’s career reflects his resolute dedication to helping the world’s poorest...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1423302/">British Development Policy and the Conservative Party</a> <span class="item-date">- Dec 3, 2009</span> <div><p>Andrew Mitchell, MP, UK Shadow Minister for International Development, will be speaking about the UK Conservative Party's development policy and plans, including the main elements of the "green paper" issued recently. One World Conservatism lays out the Tory strategy for fighting global poverty and...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423190.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1423190/">Financing Forest Conservation to Combat Global Warming: Keys to Success at Copenhagen</a> <span class="item-date">- Nov 18, 2009</span> <div><p>Forest clearing in developing countries is an enormous contributor to global warming, accounting for about 15% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. The Bali Action Plan seeks ways to reward countries for reducing these emissions--an agenda known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423189.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1423189/">Zedillo Commission Report on World Bank Governance</a> <span class="item-date">- Nov 6, 2009</span> <div><p>The World Bank recently released the long-awaited report of a high-level commission on World Bank governance headed by former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo. The report, requested by World Bank president Robert Zoellick, offers a comprehensive blueprint for modernizing the bank. The Center for...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1422781.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1422781/">The G-20 and Global Development</a> <span class="item-date">- Sep 23, 2009</span> <div><p>Decisions made at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh will have far-reaching implications for billions of people around the world. But a billion people who live in the world’s smallest and poorest countries have no representative at the table. And hundreds of millions of other desperately poor people...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1422725.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1422725/">Helping Low-Income Countries Cope with the Global Financial Crisis</a> <span class="item-date">- Sep 17, 2009</span> <div><p>The global financial crisis that originated in the developed economies has hit low-income countries hard. As they were coping with the food and fuel price shocks of 2008, the crisis caused a sharp decline in world trade, falling commodity prices, and dropping remittances. In response, the IMF has...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1422714.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1422714/">The Crisis Next Time: U.S. Leadership at the Pittsburgh G-20 and Beyond</a> <span class="item-date">- Sep 10, 2009</span> <div><p>CGD Event Special Notice:Collective action by the world’s largest economies coordinated through G-20 summits in Washington and London has gone a long way to avert a global economic crisis. But the G-20 is not yet an adequate forum for addressing urgent global problems, and other crises threaten....</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1422222/">Congressional Hearing: Foreign Policy Implications of U.S. Efforts to Address the International Financial Crisis: TARP, TALF and the G-20 Plan</a> <span class="item-date">- Jun 10, 2009</span> <div><p> SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING NOTICE Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515-0128 Brad J. Sherman (D-CA), Chairman June 3, 2009 TO: MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS You...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1422070.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1422070/">Beyond Lending: How Multilateral Banks Can Help Developing Countries Manage Volatility</a> <span class="item-date">- May 21, 2009</span> <div><p>Developing countries are susceptible to many kinds of risks—from liquidity shocks and terms of trade volatility to natural disasters. The economic crisis is a reminder that dealing with external risks is a formidable challenge to economic development. The crisis, largely a product of the rich...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1422092/">Congressional Hearing: Implications of the G-20 Leaders Summit for Low Income Countries and the Global Economy</a> <span class="item-date">- May 13, 2009</span> <div><p>Witness List & Prepared Testimony: • Mr. Amar Bhattacharya, Director, Intergovernmental Group of Twenty Four • Ms. Nancy Birdsall, Founding President, Center for Global Development • Mr. Simon Johnson, Professor, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • The...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1421273/">New Ideas in Development after the Financial Crisis</a> <span class="item-date">- Apr 22, 2009</span> <div><p>The New Ideas in Development After the Financial Crisis Conference, sponsored by CGD and the Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on Constructive Capitalism, will examine the implications of the global financial crisis on existing development strategies. Panels of distinguished academics and policy...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1421239.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1421239/">The 2008 Commitment to Development Ideas in Action Award</a> <span class="item-date">- Mar 17, 2009</span> <div><p>Please join us in honoring ONE, the 2008 winner of the Commitment to Development Ideas in Action Award, sponsored jointly by the Center for Global Development (CGD) and Foreign Policy magazine. ONE is an advocacy organization that raised awareness about global poverty during the 2008 U.S....</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1420889/">CGD Special Discussion with David Gergen on Obama's Global Development Policy</a> <span class="item-date">- Jan 16, 2009</span> <div><p>Join Nancy Birdsall, David Gergen, and CGD senior fellows who are authors of essays in our newest book, The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President , for a lively discussion of the prospects for improved U.S. development policy under President Barack...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1300163.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1300163/">If It Doesn’t Get Counted, Does It Count? New Measures of Aid Quality for Microfinance, Humanitarian Aid, and Everything Else</a> <span class="item-date">- Dec 16, 2008</span> <div><p>The last decade has seen a growing number of efforts to measure the quality of foreign aid, including part of CGD's own Commitment to Development Index (CDI). This event will showcase three new projects of this kind—projects that dramatize how the quality of aid matters as well the quantity, that...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/894424/">Cornell University's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series Featuring Nancy Birdsall</a> <span class="item-date">- Nov 3, 2008</span> <div><p>Nancy Birdsall, President of the Center for Global Development, will give a lecture entitled, "The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President" on Monday, November 3rd, at 4:30pm in Lewis Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. The talk is part of the Einaudi...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/16672/">Preparing for the Next Global Food Price Crisis</a> <span class="item-date">- Oct 6, 2008</span> <div><p>Commodity prices may have sagged somewhat but the latest spike in food prices will not be the last. Moreover, tight markets, climate change, and the changing role of investors in commodity markets all suggest that food price volatility may be greater in the future. Even with more investment in...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/16678/">The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President</a> <span class="item-date">- Sep 18, 2008</span> <div><p>Each day brings fresh evidence that Americans’ well-being is linked to the lives of others around the world as never before. Accelerating advances in technology and the creation of new knowledge offer undreamed-of opportunities. Yet global poverty, inequality, disease and the threat of rapid...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/16639/">Congressional Hearing: Foreign Assistance in the Americas</a> <span class="item-date">- Sep 16, 2008</span> <div><p>You are respectfully requested to attend the following OPEN hearing of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, to be held in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building: DATE: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 TIME: 2:30 p.m. SUBJECT: Foreign Assistance in the Americas WITNESSES:...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/15498/">Strengthening U.S. Foreign Assistance: Proposals for a More Effective Strategy</a> <span class="item-date">- Mar 3, 2008</span> <div><p>The SAIS International Development Program and the SAIS Center for International Business and Public Policy will host a discussion by two leading critics of the HELP Commission Report on U.S. foreign assistance that was submitted to the President and Congress in December 2007. Leo Hindery, Vice...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/15118/">Adapting to the Changing Climate in the Bank on Climate Change</a> <span class="item-date">- Jan 9, 2008</span> <div><p>Curious about the buzz surrounding climate change talk? Just can't get away from it, can you? Wondering what all the talk on climate change impact, mitigation,and adaptation means? If you have pondered over these issues then you are invited to come hear Professor Robert Mendelsohn from Yale...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="tab-box selected "> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423949/">Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/doc/commentary/birdsall/Birdsall_syllabus.pdf">Inequality and Development in a Globalizing World - A Syllabus</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/1420949/">The Development Agenda as a Global Social Contract; Or, We Are All in this Development Boat Together</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16560">The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15192/" target="_blank">Fair Growth: Economic Policies for Latin America's Poor and Middle-Income Majority</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14696" target="_blank">Reflections on the Macro Foundations of the Middle Class in the Developing World</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14625" target="_blank">From World Bank to World Development Cooperative</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14375/" target="_blank">Poverty and Inequality in Latin America: How the U.S. Can Really Help</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/13382/">Nancy Birdsall testifies before House Foreign Affairs Committee about Poverty and Inequality in Latin America</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/4793/">The World is not Flat: Inequality and Injustice in our Global Economy</a> [WIDER Lecture]</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=794&prog=zgp" target="_blank">Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Poverty in the Developing World</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1423756/" target="_blank">Identifying a Fair Deal on Climate Change</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1423269/" target="_blank">Forget Emissions, Focus on Research</a></li> </ul> <h3>Non-CGD Publications</h3> <p><strong>Books</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/doc/expert pages/birdsall/Population _Matters.pdf" target="_blank">Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Poverty in the Developing World</a>, edited with Allen C. Kelleyand Steven W. Sinding (Oxford University Press, 2001) <li><em>New Markets, New Opportunities? Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World</em> with Carol Graham (Brookings and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999) <li><em>Distributive Justice and Economic Development</em> with Andres Solimano and Eduardo Aninat (University of Michigan Press, 1999) <li><em>Beyond Tradeoffs: Market Reforms and Equitable Growth in Latin America</em> with Carol Graham and Richard H. Sabot (1998) </ul> <p><strong>Papers and Articles</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/doc/expert pages/birdsall/birdsall_vaishnav_JIA Spring 2005.pdf" target="_blank">Education and the MDGS: Realizing the Millennium Compact</a>, by Nancy Birdsall and Milan Vaishnav. Reprinted by permission of the Columbia Journal of International Affairs (Spring 2005). Copyright 2005, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. <li><a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/doc/expert pages/birdsall/BirdsallTWB.pdf" target="_blank">The World Bank of the Future: Victim, Villain, Global Credit Union?</a> Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. October 2000 <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.brookings.edu/es/dynamics/papers/middleclass/midclass.pdf" target="_blank">Stuck In The Tunnel: Is Globalization Muddling The Middle Class?</a> by Nancy Birdsall, Carol Graham, and Stefano Pettinato, The Brookings Institution Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, Working Paper No. 14, August 2000 <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.brookings.edu/dybdocroot/es/dynamics/papers/education-tpa/default.htm" target="_blank">Education: the Peoples Asset</a><br/>The Brookings Institution Center on Social and Economic Dynamics Working Paper Number 5. September 1999. <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.cgdev.org/doc/expert pages/EgyptMar15.pdf">Putting Education to Work in Egypt</a>, by Nancy Birdsall and Lesley O'Connell. Prepared for Conference, Growth Beyond Stabilization: Prospects for Egypt, sponsored by The Egyptian Center for Economic Studies in collaboration with the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, University of Maryland; the Harvard Institute for International Development, and the US Agency for International Development, February 3-4, 1999, Cairo, Egypt. March 1999. </ul> <p><strong>Contributions to Edited Volumes</strong></p> <ul> <li><em>"América Latina y la Globalización: Prebisch Tenía Razón,"</em> in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.iadb.org/intal/aplicaciones/uploads/publicaciones/e_intalitd_ie_2006_prebisch.pdf">Raul Prebisch: El poder, los Principios y la Ética del Desarrollo</a> edited by Edgar J. Dosman. (IADB, 2006) <li><em>"Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: Deeper Markets and Better Schools Make a Difference,"</em> with Jere R. Behrman and Miguel Szekely, in <em>New Markets, New Opportunities? Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World</em> (1999) <li><em>"The U.S. and the Social Challenge in Latin America: The New Agenda Needs New Instruments,"</em> with Nora Lustig and Lesley O'Connell, in <em>The Search for Common Ground: U.S. National Interests and the Western Hemisphere in a New Century</em> (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999) <li><em>"Deep Integration and Trade Agreements: Good for Developing Countries?"</em> with Robert Z. Lawrence in <em>Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century</em> (Oxford University Press, 1999) <li><em>"No Tradeoff: Efficient Growth Via More Equal Human Capital Accumulation in Latin America,"</em> in <em>Beyond Trade-Offs: Market Reforms and Equitable Growth in Latin America</em> (1998) </ul> <p><strong>Articles:</strong></p> <ul> <li>"<em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/FA-subramanian0705.pdf">How to Help Poor Countries</a></em>," with Dani Rodrick and Arvind Subramanian in <em>Foreign Affairs</em>, July/August 2005 <li><em>"That Silly Inequality Debate,"</em> in <em>Foreign Policy</em>, May/June 2002 <li><em>"Education in Latin America: Demand and Distribution are Factors that Matter,"</em> with Juan Luis Londoño and Lesley O'Connell in <em>CEPAL Review 66</em>, December 1998 <li><em>"Life is Unfair: Inequality in the World,"</em> in <em>Foreign Policy</em>, Summer 1998 <li><em>"Public Spending on Higher Education in Developing Countries: Too Much or Too Little?"</em> in <em>Economics of Education Review</em>, 1996 </ul> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </td> <td style="width:20px"></td> <td id="section-sidebar" valign="top"> <h3> <div style="float:right"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=0a6cdcd872c2c6804b171d574b60cc0a&_render=rss"><img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/icon-rss-tiny.png" alt="RSS"/></a> </div> Recent Blog Posts <div class="clear"></div> </h3> <div class="recent-blog-posts"><ul> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/geeta-rao-gupta-wins-2011-commitment-to-development-award.php">Geeta Rao Gupta Wins 2011 Commitment to Development Award</a> <span class="blog-date">- Dec 8</span> </li> <li> <a 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23</span> </li> </ul></div> <div style="float:right"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=0a6cdcd872c2c6804b171d574b60cc0a&_render=rss" class="more-link">More</a></div> <div class="clear"></div> <h3>Multimedia</h3> <div class="multimedia"><ul> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120106211822im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425667_image_perakis.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <a href="/web/20120106211822/http://cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1425667/"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106211822/http://blogs.cgdev.org/global_prosperity_wonkcast/2011/11/14/measuring-the-quality-of-aid-quoda-%e2%80%93-homi-kharas-and-rita-perakis/">Measuring the Quality of Aid (QuODA) – Homi Kharas and Rita Perakis</a></a> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img 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