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cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top" style="border-right:1px solid #eee;padding-right:10px;"> <h2 class="blueHeader">Recent Commentary</h2> <h3><a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/1420948/">Letter to IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler</a></h3> 01/21/2009 <p><p>In this January 2004 letter, CGD president Nancy Birdsall writes to IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler to applaud the work of the then-new Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) and to encourage his active endorsement of two of IEO recommendations for IMF management and staff.</p> <h3><a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/16441/">La Crisis Financiera Internacional (Slide Show Commentary)</a></h3> 07/29/2008  <a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2718/">Liliana Rojas-Suarez</a> <p></p> <h3><a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/16027/">World Bank Power Projects: Crossroads on Renewable Energy (Slide Show Commentary)</a></h3> 05/09/2008  <a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/11584/">David Wheeler</a> <p><p>David Wheeler offers commentary on slides that illustrate his forthcoming paper with Kevin Ummel on a dynamic strategy for developing solar thermal power as a cost-competitive alternative to coal-fired power. They have presented versions of these slides at a number of conferences and policy workshops during the past two months. This is a summary of the forthcoming paper and its conclusions.</p></p> <h3><a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/14519/">Foreign Aid: Diagnosis without Direction</a></h3> 10/01/2007  <a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/483/">Nancy Birdsall</a> <p><p>In a recent review of William Easterly's <em>The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good</em>, published in the <em>SAIS Review</em>, CGD president Nancy Birdsall applauds Easterly's diagnosis of the problem with foreign aid: donors favor big, comprehensive, visible projects rather than trying to solve narrow, immediate problems. Easterly proposes a two-fold solution: remodel the entire system to raise accountability and refocus aid toward smaller, specialized programs. Birdsall argues against reinventing the entire aid system, in place of reforming aspects of it to resemble Easterly's model.<p></p> <h3><a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/13983/">Global Fund Grant Programs: An Analysis of Evaluation</a></h3> 07/03/2007  <a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2680/">Steve Radelet</a> <p><p>The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has quickly become one of the world's largest funders of health programs. In this article, originally published in <em>The Lancet</em>, Steve Radelet and Bilal Siddi analyze 140 program grants evaluated by the Global Fund and the association between the programs' evaluation scores and various characteristics of the grants themselves. Among their findings: AIDS and TB programs, and programs implemented by civil society/private sector recipients, tend to have higher scores.</p> <h3><a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/11297/">The New Global Slave Trade [Foreign Affairs]</a></h3> 11/16/2006  <a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2704/">Ethan Kapstein</a> <p><p>The New Global Slave Trade, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2006. This article is reprinted by permission of FOREIGN AFFAIRS (www.foreignaffairs.org), Copyright 2006 by the Council on Foreign Relations.</p> <h3><a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/5789/">Following the Money in Global Health</a></h3> 01/18/2006  <a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2708/">Ruth Levine</a> <p><em>This article originally appeared in <strong>Global HealthLink</strong></em> <p>"Resource tracking" is a hot new topic in global health circles. Far from being of interest only to accountants and statisticians, data on the flow of money – how much, from whom and for what – is the subject of intense debates within the donor community, the policy community in developing countries and civil society "watchdog" groups.</p> <h3><a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/5431/">Controversy over World Bank trade & poverty estimates</a></h3> 12/19/2005  <a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2693/">William R. Cline</a> <p><p></a>Three years ago the World Bank said that freeing international trade of all barriers and subsidies would lift 320 million people above the $2 a day poverty line by 2015. But new World Bank projections emphasizing $1 a day poverty and based on new data and methods put the number at just 32 million people. CGD/IIE Senior Fellow <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/experts/detail/2693/">William R. Cline</a>, author of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2908">Trade Policy and Global Poverty</a>, has been examining the Bank's new calculations and argues that the first estimate was closer to the truth. <p></p> <h3><a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/5429/">A Hong Kong Declaration</a></h3> 12/19/2005  <a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2700/">Kimberly Ann Elliott</a> <p><p></a>Trade ministers in Hong Kong just barely managed to meet the low expectations they set for themselves, according to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2700/"/>Kimberly Elliott</a>, a CGD/IIE joint fellow. "This means that the negotiations still have a chance to reach a meaningful agreement in 2006, but the pace and the willingness to make politically difficult concessions will have to increase substantially," she said.</p> <h3><a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/5225/">Beyond the Consensus of Washington: New Social Contract in Latin America</a></h3> 12/02/2005  <a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/483/">Nancy Birdsall</a> <p><p>This commentary is a summary of a presentation by Nancy Birdsall delivered in Lima Peru on November 17, 2005 for the Group for the Analysis of Development</p> </ul> <p class="right"><a class="more" href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/?type=1">All Commentary</a></p> </td> <td width="50%" valign="top" style="padding-left:10px;"> <h2 class="blueHeader">Recent Blog Posts</h2> <h3>Global Development: Views from the Center</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/vfc/~3/fi-7XN2-EeU/obama_fy10_budget_charts_cours_1.php">Obama FY10 Budget Charts Course to Doubling Aid</a> 02/27/2009</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/vfc/~3/BB9GXRKwz_4/end_of_the_road_for_the_world_1.php">End of the Road for the World Bank's Clean Technology Fund?</a> 02/25/2009</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/vfc/~3/dklcBXqphJ0/us_congress_cuts_funds_for_wor.php">U.S. Congress Cuts Funds for World Bank's So-Called Clean Technology Fund</a> 02/25/2009</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/vfc/~3/r7BTdez1HiY/check_out_david_roodmans_micro.php">Check Out David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog</a> 02/24/2009</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/vfc/~3/85YkPG1lnL4/what_activists_at_the_capitol.php">What Activists at the Capitol Power Plant Can Learn from CARMA</a> 02/23/2009</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/" class="more" title="Global Development: Views from the Center">MORE</a></p> <h3>Global Health Policy</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/globalhealth/~3/WNEL9PQPBMI/post_1.php">Phones for Health: Great Idea But Where?s the Evidence?</a> 02/27/2009</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/globalhealth/~3/Wod1-aaTl2A/florists_globally_ce.php">Florists Globally Celebrate Launch of Mothers Day Every Day Campaign</a> 02/27/2009</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/globalhealth/~3/CfTJDSeoHPk/reevaluating_unaids.php">Re-Evaluating UNAIDS</a> 02/12/2009</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/globalhealth/~3/NUu19tBCQ90/climbing_a_mountain.php">Climbing a Mountain of Data in Bellagio, Italy: HIV/AIDS Funding and Human Resource for Health</a> 02/12/2009</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/globalhealth/~3/g65qG8W_Av0/oxfam_this_is_not_how_.php">Oxfam -- This Is Not How to Help the Poor</a> 02/11/2009</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globalhealth/" class="more" title="Global Health Policy">MORE</a></p> <h3>MCA Monitor Blog</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/mcamonitor/~3/RmCDsbSchzY/mcc_thrown_a_li.php">MCC Thrown a Lifeline in FY09 Omnibus Bill</a> 02/25/2009</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/mcamonitor/~3/8Y7VbYLRufk/smart_developme.php">Smart Development Through Local Leadership: MCC's Approach to Country Ownership</a> 02/21/2009</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/mcamonitor/~3/qWWTC4rQF8E/fy2009_eligibil_1.php">FY2009 Eligibility Selection: MCC Board Sets the Stage for the Incoming Administration</a> 12/16/2008</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/mcamonitor/~3/-TZgDAgmqoU/potential_prece.php">Potential Precedent-Setting: Board to Deliberate Nicaragua</a> 12/09/2008</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cgd/blogs/mcamonitor/~3/te07Rvpajvs/update_namibia_1.php">Newsletter Update: Namibia Compact Ratified in Windhoek</a> 11/24/2008</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://blogs.cgdev.org/mca-monitor/" class="more" title="MCA Monitor Blog">MORE</a></p> <h2 class="blueHeader">Speeches</h2> <h3><a href="/web/20090227221810/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></h3> 01/21/2009  <a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/483/">Nancy Birdsall</a> <p><p>On December 7, 2008, Nancy Birdsall spoke at the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy. Her speech entitled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Opinions/Birdsall_Jan_28_Netherlands_Speech.pdf">The Development Agenda as a Global Social Contract: Or We Are All in this Development Boat Together</a>, proposes a new global social contract with which to address the growing instability and globalization of the world’s economy. She advocates a shift in the how the developed world thinks about development assistance, to move beyond simple foreign aid and to create a robust global polity with which to enforce the rules of a trans-national social contract.</p> <h3><a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/16847/">Remarks Given to the UN Roundtable on Poverty and Hunger</a></h3> 09/29/2008  <a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/483/">Nancy Birdsall</a>   <a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/event/detail/15264/">How the Millennium Development Goals Are Unfair to Africa</a> <p><p>At the invitation of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, CGD president Nancy Birdsall addressed heads of state, foreign ministers, and other leaders in New York City on September 25, 2008, at the UN’s High-Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The event focused on a review of progress toward the goals mid-way to the MDG target date of 2015.</p></p> <h3><a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/16675/">Foreign Assistance in the Americas: Testimony for the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere</a></h3> 09/16/2008  <a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/483/">Nancy Birdsall</a>   <a href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/event/detail/16639/">Congressional Hearing: Foreign Assistance in the Americas</a> <p><p>Chairman Engel, Congressman Burton, and distinguished members of the committee, I am delighted to have the opportunity to share with you my views on the state of U.S. foreign assistance efforts in general and in the Americas more specifically. </p> <p>As many of you know, the Center for Global Development is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to improving the policies of the rich countries as they relate to the world’s poor countries and poorest people. Like this committee, we recognize the enormous opportunity that the 2008 U.S. presidential and congressional elections present to revisit the strategic rationale and the effectiveness of U.S. foreign assistance programs in Latin America and other developing regions. We look forward to working with the new administration, both parties in Congress, and our colleagues in the think tank and development advocacy communities to help ensure our foreign assistance programs not only reflect American values but effectively address the 21st-century imperative of promoting global prosperity and security globally in America’s own interests.</p></p> </ul> <p class="right"><a class="more" href="/web/20090227221810/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/?type=3">All Speeches</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <div id="footer"> <p style="float: right; width: 400px; text-align: right;">1776 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Third Floor, Washington DC 20036<br/>Tel 202.416.0700 | Fax 202.416.0750</p> <p>© 2009 Center for Global Development.<p> <div class="clear-fix"></div> </div>  </div>  <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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