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Investment <div class="clear"></div> </div> <h1 class="title"> Private Investment </h1>  <script type="text/javascript"> function toggleOverview() { var thetxt = jQuery(".toggle").html(); if ("Read More" == thetxt) { thetxt = "Read Less"; pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'read more click'); } else { thetxt = "Read More"; } jQuery(".content-trimmed").toggle(); jQuery(".content-full").toggle(); jQuery(".toggle").html(thetxt); } </script> <table style="width:100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td id="section-content" valign="top">  <div id="featured"> <img class="img-left-big" src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/files/2672_image2_private_investment.jpg" alt=""/> <div class="content-trimmed"><p>A thriving private sector is essential to long-term development. CGD research includes examination of donor efforts to help developing countries improve their business climate and foster entrepreneurship, as well as research into ways to increase the positive impacts—and avoid pitfalls—of foreign direct investment. Our work also includes analyzing innovations in development finance and private equity. </p> </div> <div class="content-full" style="display:none"><p>A thriving private sector is essential to long-term development. CGD research includes examination of donor efforts to help developing countries improve their business climate and foster entrepreneurship, as well as research into ways to increase the positive impacts—and avoid pitfalls—of foreign direct investment. Our work also includes analyzing innovations in development finance and private equity. </p>  <p>The investment component in CGD’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/cdi/">Commitment to Development Index</a> compares rich countries on policies that encourage constructive investment in poor countries. This analysis is based on twenty questions, including whether governments allow public pension funds to invest in poor countries, whether they offer insurance against political risks, such as expropriation, to encourage domestic companies to venture abroad, and whether they first check for potential environmental and labor rights abuses in factories to be insured.</p> <p>A CGD <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2644">book</a> by non-resident fellow <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2712/">Ted Moran </a>analyzes the impact of foreign direct investment on development outcomes. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15004/">Joining the Fight against Global Poverty: A Menu for Corporate Engagement</a> <p>International corporations interested in joining the fight against global poverty can choose from a wide range of options, according to a CGD report. The report, <em>Joining the Fight against Global Poverty: A Menu for Corporate Engagement</em>, suggests six approaches for corporations to consider when pursuing development objectives. Based on interviews with senior executives at fifteen firms with global reach, it includes stories about what has worked (and what hasn't) and describes some of the advantages that companies have found in working for development.</div> <div><a style="float:right" class="more-link toggle" href="javascript:;" onclick="toggleOverview();pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'read more click');">Read More</a></div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="tabbed-navigation"> <div class="tabs"> <span class="tab newest active" rel="newest" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'newest');">Newest</span> <span class="tab popular" rel="popular" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'popular');">Popular</span> <span class="tab" rel="publications" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'publications');">Publications</span> <span class="tab" rel="experts" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'experts');">Experts</span> <span class="tab" rel="research" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'initiatives');">Initiatives</span>  <span class="tab" rel="multimedia" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'multimedia');">Multimedia</span> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="tab-box newest active"> <ul> <li> <div style=""> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425198">Globalization, Wages, and Working Conditions: A Case Study of Cambodian Garment Factories - Working Paper 257</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 13, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Using a comprehensive data set of working conditions and wage compliance in Cambodia’s exporting garment factories, the authors explore the impact of foreign ownership on wages and working conditions, whether the relationship between wages and working conditions more closely resembles efficiency...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424992_image_Perry_MDB_Direct_Support.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424992">Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks' Direct Support to Private Firms</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 11, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Private sector lending by international financial institutions (IFIs) is soaring. Guillermo Perry finds it’s a mixed bag and suggests improvements, including more support to small and medium firms and avoidance of procyclical lending.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424993_image_Perry_Direct_Support_brief.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424993">Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks’ Direct Support to Private Firms (brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 11, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Guillermo Perry assesses whether arguments in favor of such MDB direct support are valid and whether MDBs are living up to priorities coherent with such arguments and finds that they do so only partially.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424865_image_moran_pwyp_note.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424865">Promoting Universal Transparency in Extractive Industries: How and Why?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 28, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>International extractive companies and their governments should work to make the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) require all EITI-compliant countries to require individual company-by-company reporting.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424593_image_More_than_Money.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424593">More than Money: Impact Investing for Development</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 6, 2010</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>In this report John Simon and Julia Barmier assess past and current efforts to indicate whether direct development investment is worth promoting as a matter of public policy.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424561_image_CDI_2010.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424561">Commitment to Development Index 2010</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 4, 2010</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the five billion people living in poorer nations. 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How U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaties with Africa Can Promote Development</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 4, 2010</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>This paper focuses on the role that bilateral investment treaties (BITs) can play in promoting development in sub-Saharan Africa. </p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423783_image_a_doing_business_facility.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423783">A Doing Business Facility: A Proposal for Enhancing Business Climate Reform Assistance</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 30, 2010</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Africa remains extremely difficult for entrepreneurs. Donors are increasingly targeting assistance to address the investment-climate constraints that hinder private-sector growth. This report lays out the case for promoting investment climate reforms more strategically, various options for...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1422581.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1422581">Criss-Crossing Globalization: Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment - Working Paper 176</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 6, 2009</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>What happens when capital and sophisticated goods flow uphill, from poorer to richer countries? With a new dataset of foreign direct investment and a measure of the sophistication of exports, CGD senior fellow Arvind Subramanian and his co-author Aaditya Mattoo find that developing countries...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1421337">Africa's Private Sector: What's Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do About It - Brief</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 23, 2009</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>This CGD Brief, based on the book Africa's Private Sector by Vijaya Ramachandran, Alan Gelb, and Manju Kedia Shah, shows how investing in infrastructure and improving access to education can help bring about a broad-based business class in Africa.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <ul> </div> <div class="tab-box popular"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424593_image_More_than_Money.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424593">More than Money: Impact Investing for Development</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 6, 2010</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>In this report John Simon and Julia Barmier assess past and current efforts to indicate whether direct development investment is worth promoting as a matter of public policy.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> </div> <div style=""> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2764">New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" - Working Paper 26</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 27, 2003</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>The Burnside and Dollar (2000) finding that aid raises growth in a good policy environment has had an important influence on policy and academic debates. We conduct a data gathering exercise that updates their data from 1970-93 to 1970-97, as well as filling in missing data for the original period...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> </div> <div style=""> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425198">Globalization, Wages, and Working Conditions: A Case Study of Cambodian Garment Factories - Working Paper 257</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 13, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Using a comprehensive data set of working conditions and wage compliance in Cambodia’s exporting garment factories, the authors explore the impact of foreign ownership on wages and working conditions, whether the relationship between wages and working conditions more closely resembles efficiency...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424561_image_CDI_2010.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424561">Commitment to Development Index 2010</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 4, 2010</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the five billion people living in poorer nations. 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Read a Q&A; with lead...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> </div> <div style=""> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1417884/&t=desert%20power:%20the%20economics%20of%20solar%20thermal%20electricity%20for%20europe,%20">Desert Power: The Economics of Solar Thermal Electricity for Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East - Working Paper 156</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 12, 2008</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Senior fellow David Wheeler and Kevin Ummel argue for rapid, very large-scale deployment of existing solar thermal technology. 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Her latest book is Africa's Private Sector: What's Wrong with the...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2718_file_lrs.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2718/">Liliana Rojas-Suarez</a>, Senior Fellow <div><p>Liliana Rojas-Suarez is an expert on Latin America, financial services, and the effects of global financial regulation. She leads CGD’s extensive package of analysis on the development impact of the U.S. financial crisis and has been the chair of the Latin American Shadow Financial Regulatory...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1420956_file_simon_170.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1420956/">John Simon</a>, Former Visiting Fellow <div><p>John Simon served on the U.S. National Security Council as special assistant to President George W. Bush and senior director for relief, stabilization, and development. This week, on the Global Prosperity Wonkcast, he expands on his recent article, "Six Important Lessons for Disaster Relief," and...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul></ul> </div> <div class="tab-box publications"> <ul> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425198/">Globalization, Wages, and Working Conditions: A Case Study of Cambodian Garment Factories - Working Paper 257</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 13, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Using a comprehensive data set of working conditions and wage compliance in Cambodia’s exporting garment factories, the authors explore the impact of foreign ownership on wages and working conditions, whether the relationship between wages and working conditions more closely resembles efficiency... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424993_image_Perry_Direct_Support_brief.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424993/">Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks’ Direct Support to Private Firms (brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 11, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Guillermo Perry assesses whether arguments in favor of such MDB direct support are valid and whether MDBs are living up to priorities coherent with such arguments and finds that they do so only partially. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424992_image_Perry_MDB_Direct_Support.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424992/">Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks' Direct Support to Private Firms</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 11, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Private sector lending by international financial institutions (IFIs) is soaring. Guillermo Perry finds it’s a mixed bag and suggests improvements, including more support to small and medium firms and avoidance of procyclical lending. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424865_image_moran_pwyp_note.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424865/">Promoting Universal Transparency in Extractive Industries: How and Why?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 28, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> International extractive companies and their governments should work to make the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) require all EITI-compliant countries to require individual company-by-company reporting. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424593_image_More_than_Money.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424593/">More than Money: Impact Investing for Development</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 6, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this report John Simon and Julia Barmier assess past and current efforts to indicate whether direct development investment is worth promoting as a matter of public policy. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424561_image_CDI_2010.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424561/">Commitment to Development Index 2010</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 4, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the five billion people living in poorer nations. Moving beyond standard comparisons of foreign aid volumes, the CDI quantifies a range of rich country policies that... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424333/">Where Are the BITs? How U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaties with Africa Can Promote Development</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 4, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper focuses on the role that bilateral investment treaties (BITs) can play in promoting development in sub-Saharan Africa. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423783_image_a_doing_business_facility.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423783/">A Doing Business Facility: A Proposal for Enhancing Business Climate Reform Assistance</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 30, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Africa remains extremely difficult for entrepreneurs. Donors are increasingly targeting assistance to address the investment-climate constraints that hinder private-sector growth. This report lays out the case for promoting investment climate reforms more strategically, various options for... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1422581.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1422581/">Criss-Crossing Globalization: Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment - Working Paper 176</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 6, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> What happens when capital and sophisticated goods flow uphill, from poorer to richer countries? With a new dataset of foreign direct investment and a measure of the sophistication of exports, CGD senior fellow Arvind Subramanian and his co-author Aaditya Mattoo find that developing countries... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1421337/">Africa's Private Sector: What's Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do About It - Brief</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 23, 2009</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This CGD Brief, based on the book Africa's Private Sector by Vijaya Ramachandran, Alan Gelb, and Manju Kedia Shah, shows how investing in infrastructure and improving access to education can help bring about a broad-based business class in Africa. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1417884/">Desert Power: The Economics of Solar Thermal Electricity for Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East - Working Paper 156</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 12, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Senior fellow David Wheeler and Kevin Ummel argue for rapid, very large-scale deployment of existing solar thermal technology. Using maps of solar radiation and project finance calculations, they show that with modest subsidies solar power generated in North Africa and the Middle East could meet... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14565/">The 2007 Commitment to Development Index: Components and Results</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 10, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This CGD brief summarizes the results of the 2007 Commitment to Development Index (CDI), which ranks 21 of the world's richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the five billion people living in poorer nations. The Netherlands comes in first on the 2007 CDI on the strength of... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14517/">Does Influence-Peddling Impact Industrial Competition? Evidence from Enterprise Surveys in Africa - Working Paper 127</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 1, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> CGD visiting fellow Vijaya Ramachandran and co-authors Manju Kedia Shah and Gaiv Tata used firm-level survey data from more than 1,500 enterprises in six African countries to discover how and why African firms lobby. Their working paper concludes that larger, entrenched firms lobby to protect their... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.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/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14314/">We Fall Down and Get Up: Carol Lancaster Reports on Elections in Sierra Leone</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 27, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Sierra Leone, where a brutal decade-long civil war finally ended in 2002, has just held remarkably fair, peaceful and well-organized elections. CGD visiting fellow Carol Lancaster, a former deputy administrator of USAID, was there as an election observer. In a new CGD Essay, she reflects on what... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/12773/">Why Doesn't Africa Get More Equity Investment? Frontier Stock Markets, Firm Size and Asset Allocations of Global Emerging Market Funds <br>- Working Paper 112</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 20, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Africa receives only a tiny fraction of global investments in emerging markets. But the problem is not that fund managers are scared away by a seemingly steady stream of bad news out of Africa, nor is a general marketing of Africa to global investors the solution. Instead the authors of this new... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/9663/">The Investment Climate Facility for Africa: Does it Deserve U.S. Support?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 21, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Investment Climate Facility (ICF) for Africa was launched in June to help Africa tackle problems that hinder domestic and foreign investment. It aims to raise $550 million for promotion of property rights and financial markets, anti-corruption efforts, and reform of regulations, taxation, and... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2850/">Why Global Development Matters for the U.S.</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 15, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Development refers to improvements in the conditions of people’s lives, such as health, education, and income. It occurs at different rates in different countries. The U.S. underwent its own version of development since the time it became an independent nation in 1776. Learn more about Rich... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/6928/">Privatization: A Summary Assessment - Working Paper 87</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 27, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this new CGD working paper John Nellis takes stock of fifteen years of privatization in developing and post-communist countries. He finds that a surprisingly large amount of assets remain in state hands. And while technical assessments of the impact of privatization are often positive, public... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/6661/">Building and Running an Effective Policy Index: Lessons from the Commitment to Development Index</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 13, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Commitment to Development Index (CDI), which ranks 21 countries across six policy areas, is widely seen as the most comprehensive and substantive measure of rich country policies towards development. In response to requests from other would-be index builders, CDI architect David Roodman... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/6352/">Back to the Future for African Infrastructure? Why State-Ownership Is No More Promising the Second Time Around - Working Paper 84</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 21, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> African state-owned enterprises, particularly those in infrastructure, have a long history of poor performance. But moves in the 1990s to rely instead on private-sector participation and ownership have yet to deliver the hoped-for improvements. Is the solution to return to a strategy of improving... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/6113/">How Multinational Investors Evade Developed Country Laws<br> - Working Paper 79</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 3, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The G-8 has endorsed sweeping efforts to combat bribery and corrupt payments by international investors. Are these efforts effective? A new working paper by Theodore H. Moran says no. In How Multinational Investors Evade Developed Country Laws, Moran presents evidence that multinational... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/5307/">Foreign Investment and Economic Development: <br> Evidence from Private Firms in East Africa</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 8, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this CGD Brief, Todd Moss and Vijaya Ramachandran analyze the survey results of 300-400 manufacturing firms in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Their main finding? Foreign firms perform better than local firms in generating jobs, increasing the productivty of their workers, and in skills transfer. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.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/20120107191634/http://www.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/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/3486_image_2015.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/3486/">Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs <br>in Economic Development - Working Paper 65</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 16, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Bill Easterly challenges a central rationale of the push for the 2015 Millennium Development Goals: the idea that poverty can be overcome with a big push in foreign aid and investment. Instead, change must come from the bottom up, he says. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2728/">Ten Myths of the International Finance Facility -<br> Working Paper 60</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 24, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The British proposal to create an International Finance Facility in order to 'frontload' $50 billion in aid per year until 2015 has generated a lot of attention and will likely be a major topic at the G8 meeting this July. But the IFF has also been shrouded in confusion and misconceptions. This... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2729/">Financial Regulations in Developing Countries: Can they Effectively Limit the Impact of Capital Account Volatility? - Working Paper 59</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 20, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> After more than a decade of financial sector liberalization, both of domestic markets and of international financial transactions (capital account liberalization), policymakers in many developing countries remain concerned about the effects that large and highly volatile capital flows have on their... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2644_image_fdi3810.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2644/">Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development?</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 9, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development?, gathers together the cutting edge of new research on FDI and host country economic performance and presents the most sophisticated critiques of current and past inquiries. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2732/">Business Environment and Comparative Advantage in Africa: Evidence from the Investment Climate Data - Working Paper 56</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 18, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper ties together the macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence on the competitiveness of African manufacturing sectors. The conceptual framework is based on the newer theories that see the evolution of comparative advantage as influenced by the business climate—a key public good—and by... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2735/">From Pushing Reforms to Pulling Reforms: The Role of Challenge Programs in Foreign Aid Policy - Working Paper Number 53</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 5, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper considers what role pull instruments or challenge programs (such as the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Support Credits or the United States' Millennium Challenge Account) could play within the overall framework of foreign aid, asking how they could be designed to function as effective... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.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="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.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/20120107191634/http://www.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/20120107191634/http://www.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/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2747/">An Index of Donor Performance - Working Paper 42</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 22, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Commitment to Development Index of the Center for Global Development rates 21 rich countries on the “development-friendliness” of their policies. It is revised and updated annually. In the 2004 edition, the component on foreign assistance combines quantitative and qualitative measures of... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2748/">Is Africa’s Skepticism of Foreign Capital Justified? Evidence from East African Firm Survey Data - Working Paper 41</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 10, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The world has increasingly recognized that private capital has a vital role to play in economic development. African countries have moved to liberalize the investment environment, yet have not received much FDI. At least part of this poor performance is because of lingering skepticism toward... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2849/">Trading Up: Labor Standards, Development, and CAFTA</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 28, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This brief examines the potential positive synergies between globalization, development, and labor standards. It argues that certain core labor standards can be applied globally without undermining comparative advantage, and that doing so would be good for development. The issues are also examined... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2855/">Privatization in Latin America: The rapid rise, recent fall, and continuing puzzle of a contentious economic policy</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 1, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This policy brief is a preview to the analysis and recommendations on privatization in the second edition of Washington Contentious: Economic Policies for Social Equity in Latin America, to be published in 2004 by the Center for Global Development and Inter-American Dialogue. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2759/">Privatization in Latin America - Working Paper 31</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 1, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In Latin America, privatization started earlier and spread farther and more rapidly than in almost any other part of the world. Despite positive microeconomic results, privatization is highly and increasingly unpopular in the region. While privatization may be winning the economic battle it is... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.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/20120107191634/http://www.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/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2764/">New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" - Working Paper 26</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 27, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Burnside and Dollar (2000) finding that aid raises growth in a good policy environment has had an important influence on policy and academic debates. We conduct a data gathering exercise that updates their data from 1970-93 to 1970-97, as well as filling in missing data for the original period... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2765/">Privatization in Africa: What has Happened? What is to be Done? - Working Paper 25</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 25, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Sub-Saharan African states urgently need expanded and more dynamic private sectors, more efficient and effective infrastructure/utility provision, and increased investment from both domestic and foreign sources. The long-run and difficult solution is the creation and reinforcement of the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2770/">World Bank Capital Neither Complements Nor Substitutes for Private Capital - Working Paper 20</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 20, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> What should the World Bank optimally do with the US$10 to $20 billion it can loan each year? Has it, in fact, done what is optimal? This study suggests a simple framework within which to measure the World Bank against an optimal international public financier for development. It goes on to argue... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2771/">Do Rich Countries Invest Less in Poor Countries than the Poor Countries Themselves? - Working Paper 19</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 19, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Global private capital flows have barely touched the poorest nations; the rich invest mostly with the rich. It is possible that failures in the global capital market prevent capital from exploiting high returns in poor countries; it is also possible that fundamental returns to investment are lower... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2772/">Private Sector Involvement in Financial Crisis Resolution: Definition, Measurement, and Implementation - Working Paper 18</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 1, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Public policy on financial crises in emerging markets has implicitly been grounded in economic theory calling for lender-of-last-resort intervention when the country is solvent, and on theory recognizing that reputational damage is the quasi-collateral enabling lending to sovereigns with no... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.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/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2778/">Low Investment is Not the Constraint on <br>African Development - Working Paper 13</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 23, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> While many analysts decry the lack of sufficient investment in Africa, we find no evidence that private and public investment are productive, either in Africa as a whole (unless Botswana is included in the sample), or in the manufacturing sector in Tanzania. In this restricted sense, inadequate... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2780/">Solutions when the Solution is the Problem: Arraying<br> the Disarray in Development - Working Paper 10</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 1, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The welfare of the poor turns in large measure not only on technocratic development "policies", but the effective delivery of key public services, core elements of which require thousands of face-to-face discretionary transactions ("practices") by service providers. This paper presents eight... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2781/">An Identity Crisis? Testing IMF Financial Programming - Working Paper 9</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 1, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The IMF uses its well-known "financial programming" model to derive monetary and fiscal programs to achieve desired macroeconomic targets in countries undergoing crises or receiving debt relief. Financial programming is based on monetary, balance of payments, and fiscal accounting identities. This... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2860/">Beyond TRIPS: A New Global Patent Regime</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 1, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> I present here a proposal for constructing a global patent regime, which could be a reasonable compromise to the current bitter dispute fueled by TRIPS. It allows the right line to be drawn between prices and incentives because different lines can be drawn for different products. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2782/">Financial Crises and Poverty in Emerging Market Economies - Working Paper 8</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 1, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This study examines the impact of the principal financial crises in emerging markets in recent years on the incidence of poverty in the countries in question. The growth impact is first identified by comparing average per capita growth in the two years prior to the crisis to that in the crisis year... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107191634/http://www.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/20120107191634/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2787/">External Advisors and Privatization in Transition Economies - Working Paper 3</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 2, 2002</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper analyzes privatization and enterprise reform of three major countries in the transition region; Poland, Czechoslovakia (subsequently the Czech Republic), and the Soviet Union (subsequently Russia). For each, it discusses the prevailing ideologies of advisors prior to and during the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107191634im_/http://www.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/20120107191634/http://www.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. 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