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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/?initiative=14764&page=2">2</a>   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/?initiative=14764&page=2">&rsaquo;</a>  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/?initiative=14764&page=2">»</a> </div> 16 items found <div class="clear"></div> </div> <h3> <a href="/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1425325"> CGD@10: Ten Years Turning Ideas into Action </a> </h3> <span class="date">07/26/2011</span> <div><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050js_/http://newmediamanager2.net/sites/all/modules/newmediamill/flashclip/swfobject.js"></script> <div id="node-1869-content"><p>You need <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/">Adobe Flash Player</a> to see this content.</p></div> <script type="text/javascript" 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(The Guardian) </a> </h3> <span class="date">05/13/2011</span> <div><p>CGD was mentioned in an article on COD aid in <i>the Guardian</i>'s Poverty Matters blog.</p></div><h3> <a href="/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1424925"> A Pay-for-Performance Evolution (New York Times) </a> </h3> <span class="date">03/18/2011</span> <div><p>CGD was mentioned in a <i>New York Times</i> follow-up opinion column on Cash on Delivery Aid</p></div><h3> <a href="/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1424923"> Aid delivery: cash, checks and credibility (The Guardian) </a> </h3> <span class="date">03/18/2011</span> <div><p>Nancy Birdsall was featured in a <i>Guardian</i> article on Cash on Delivery Aid</p></div><h3> <a href="/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1424914"> How to Protect Foreign Aid? Improve It (New York Times) </a> </h3> <span class="date">03/15/2011</span> <div><p>Nancy Birdsall and CGD's work on COD Aid was featured in a <i>New York Times</i> opinion column by Tina Rosenberg</p></div><h3> <a href="/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1424583"> Direct Payments to Pakistan's Flood Victims: A Smart Option for U.S. Assistance (The Hill, Congress Blog) </a> </h3> <span class="date">11/08/2010</span> <div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #000000 ; font-size: 10.5pt">The Hill's Congress Blog  features an op-ed by senior fellow Alan Gelb and research assistant Caroline Decker on using direct payments and smartcards with biometrics to deliver US aid to Pakistan’s flood victims. </span></div></div><h3> <a href="/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1424109"> A New Approach to Aid (Nick Kristof's On the Ground blog) </a> </h3> <span class="date">04/29/2010</span> <div><p><em>New York Times</em> op-ed columnist Nick Kristof featured CGD's idea for Cash on Delivery Aid.</p></div><h3> <a href="/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1424023"> Books I Feel Guilty that I Have not yet Read (Financial Times blog) </a> </h3> <span class="date">04/02/2010</span> <div><p><em>Financial Times' Undercover Economist</em> blog cited CGD book Cash on Delivery Aid.</p></div><h3> <a href="/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1423979"> Our Money in Pakistan (ForeignPolicy.com) </a> </h3> <span class="date">03/17/2010</span> <div><p><em>ForeignPolicy.com</em> cited CGD president Nancy Birdsall and visiting fellow Bill Savedoff on COD Aid for Pakistan.</p></div><h3> <a href="/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1423903"> Cash on Delivery Aid (Reuters' "A Complex Alchemy" Blog) </a> </h3> <span class="date">02/18/2010</span> <div><p><em>Reuters' A Complex Alchemy</em> blog features CGD's cash on delivery aid proposal and cites CGD president Nancy Birdsall.</p></div><h3> <a href="/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1423828"> Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid (One-Page Brief) </a> </h3> <span class="date">02/17/2010</span> <div><p><em>By Nancy Birdsall, William D. Savedoff, and Ayah Mahgoub</em></p> <p>A brief description of a new approach to foreign aid that would accelerate progress toward universal primary education by offering a contract to low-income countries which pays a specific amount for every additional child who completes primary school without restrictions on how funds are spent.</p></div><h3> <a href="/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1422424"> G8 in Italy Should Launch Global Fund for Education (Huffington Post) </a> </h3> <span class="date">07/07/2009</span> <div><p><em>The Huffington Post</em> publishes CGD visiting fellow Desmond Bermingham's op-ed on funding for education.</p></div><h3> <a href="/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1421009"> Kofi Annan, Drawing on CGD Research, Says Africa Should Be Part of Global Stimulus Package </a> </h3> <span class="date">02/02/2009</span> <div><p><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/homepage/02.03.09/kofi_dav0s_3.jpg" alt="Kofi Annan Speaking at Davos" width="200" height="177" class="bookcover left">A new report issued last week in Davos by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on behalf of the Africa Progress Panel draws in part on CGD research to argue that Africa is both at risk from the global economic crisis and potentially an important part of the solution.</p> <p> The report says that experiences of past financial crises suggest that aid to Africa may be cut. But it also sees a silver lining to the crisis: measures to help Africa—including trade and investment initiatives, as well as aid—should be an important part of a global stimulus package in response to the global financial crisis. </p> <p>"Africa can be an important part in a global economic stimulus plan," said Annan, who chairs the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://www.africaprogresspanel.org/english/panelists.php">Africa Progress Panel</a>, which is composed of leaders from Africa and high-income countries. "The scope for investment in Africa is vast."</p> <p> Documenting the economic growth and positive political trends of the last few years, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://www.africaprogresspanel.org/pdf/Africa-%20Preserving%20progress%20at%20a%20time%20of%20global%20crisis.pdf">report</a> states that "Africa's medium to long term prospects are better now than at any time since independence."</p> <p> However, the report also cautions that "the global crisis could arrest and even reverse steady, and in some cases dramatic, gains that have been made over the last decade." Citing <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/10/history_says_financial_crisis.php">research</a> by CGD research fellow David Roodman, the report warns that despite promises to the contrary, evidence from financial crises shows that rich countries have generally reduced the level of aid in the aftermath of a financial crisis.</p> <p> The panel report says that "it is more important than ever that Africa's partners honor their commitments" in terms of aid. Alluding to a new aid delivery mechanism being proposed by CGD president Nancy Birdsall called <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/codaid">Cash on Delivery Aid</a>, the report suggests that "rich countries can also link aid to outcomes in order to reduce the burden on African governments and improve aid effectiveness."</p> <div style="margin-top: 7px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; float: left; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"> <div style=" padding-left: 5px; border: 1px solid #AB9A5F; width: 250px; background-color: #E4DAB8; float: left;"> <h3>Related Resources</h3> <ul> <li>Africa Progress Panel Report,<em> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://www.africaprogresspanel.org/pdf/Africa-%20Preserving%20progress%20at%20a%20time%20of%20global%20crisis.pdf">Preserving Progress at a Time of Global Crisis</a></em></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://gaia.world-television.com/wef/worldeconomicforum_annualmeeting2009/default.aspx?sn=7022&lang=en">Session on the State of Africa</a> at Davos</li> <li>Kofi Annan's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://www.livemint.com/articles/Authors.aspx?author=Davos%20Diary&type=wa">Davos Diary</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <p>The report also asserts that "a real partnership between Africa and her supporters is the only way for progress to be achieved." This requires that global governance reforms "include means by which Africans are represented in a legitimate and effective manner." </p> <p> Annan launched the report at Davos at a session focusing on the State of Africa with leaders from across the continent. Speaking at the session, he said:</p> <p> "Economic recovery in industrialized countries is needed for Africa—for trade, remittance flows, investment, and aid levels. However, Africa is also integral to immediate efforts to reboot global growth. World leaders must grasp the opportunity to support African development as a means of driving their own economic recovery." </p> <p> Annan also had strong words about the situation in Zimbabwe, stating that the African Union "did not have the courage" to back the conclusions of its own election observers. </p> <p>"The crisis in Zimbabwe is man-made, unnecessary, and only getting worse," he said. "The recent cholera outbreak that has taken thousands of innocent lives is only the latest sign of the collapse of a once-thriving nation. Responsibility for this calamity falls squarely on the shoulders of Zimbabwe’s leaders, who have shown great callousness toward their own people and nothing but contempt for the exercise of their political voice and freedoms. Zimbabwe’s neighbors, the African Union, and regional bodies such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) need to act more purposefully to bring about political change and facilitate recovery and reconstruction."</p> <p>CGD senior fellow Vijaya Ramachandran served as <em>rapporteur</em> for the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://www.africaprogresspanel.org/pdf/2008%20Report.pdf">2008 report of the Africa Progress Panel</a> and assisted with the Davos report. "It is extremely important for the urgent issues of infrastructure investment, aid effectiveness, trade, and agriculture to remain as priorities during these times of crisis," she said. "While we are preoccupied with corporate irresponsibility and financial bailouts in the rich world, we must not forget our commitment to economic development and political stability in Africa."</p> <p> The report urges three steps to mitigate the worst effects of the crisis on Africa, and to enable the continent to become a driver of global economic recovery and stability:</p> <p><ul> <li> Rich-country governments and institutions must lend strong support to address the problems of climate change by investing in adaptation and in the prevention of deforestation and by increasing funding for renewable energy in Africa.</li> <li>Africa's own potential for a green revolution in food production must be realized. Technical and financial support is required as well as additional investments in rural infrastructure to ensure farmers’ access to inputs and market outlets.</li> <li>There has been no progress on multilateral trade negotiations. While pressing for the impasse post-Doha to be broken, an early harvesting of gains in trade liberalization for Africa is needed. <br> </li> </ul></p></div><h3> <a href="/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1423622"> G-20 Summit and the International Financial Institutions: Q&A; with Nancy Birdsall </a> </h3> <span class="date">11/12/2008</span> <div><p><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050im_/http://www.cgdev.org/files/483_image_file_Birdsallfordist.jpg" class="bookcover left">G-20 heads of state gathering in Washington this upcoming weekend to seek solutions to the global financial crisis should consider ways to strengthen the IMF and the World Bank, the international financial institutions set up after World War II, to prevent a repeat of the Great Depression. CGD president Nancy Birdsall outlines why and proposes a "Grand Bargain."</p></div><h3> <a href="/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1423619"> The White House & the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President: Q&A; with Nancy Birdsall </a> </h3> <span class="date">08/22/2008</span> <div><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/16561/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/homepage/hp_potus_cover.jpg" alt="The White House & the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President: Q&A with Nancy Birdsall" width="160" height="232" class="bookcover left"/></a> For the next U.S. president, effective development policy is not only the right thing to do, it will be crucial to the future well-being of the American people. A new CGD volume, <em>The White House and the World</em>, offers practical suggestions for a coherent U.S. strategy. CGD president Nancy Birdsall, who edited the volume and wrote the lead essay, “Why Development Matters for Americans and What the Next President Should Do about It,” discusses the book’s themes on the eve of the Democratic and Republican conventions. <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/16561/" class="more">LEARN MORE</a></p></div> <div class="pager"> <div style="float:right">  <strong>1</strong>  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/?initiative=14764&page=2">2</a>   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/?initiative=14764&page=2">&rsaquo;</a>  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164050/http://cgdev.org/content/article/?initiative=14764&page=2">»</a> </div> 16 items found <div class="clear"></div> </div> </td> <td style="width:20px"></td> <td id="section-sidebar" valign="top" style="width:230px; background: #fdfdfd url(/web/20120106164050im_/http://cgdev.org/content/article/sidebar-bg.png) repeat-y; padding:15px 10px; border-left:1px solid #efede9"> <h3>Filter Articles</h3> <form id="browse-filters"> <select name="type"> <option value="">by Article Type</option> <option value="1">New from CGD</option> <option value="2">CGD in the News</option> <option value="3">Press Release</option> <option value="4">Video</option> </select> <select name="topic"> <option value="">by Research Topic</option> <option value="487">Aid Effectiveness</option> <option value="2659">Capital Flows/Financial Crises</option> <option value="2661">Climate Change</option> <option value="488">Debt Relief</option> <option value="2660">Economic Growth</option> <option value="485">Education</option> <option value="1421186">Finance</option> <option value="1421532">Food and Agriculture</option> <option value="1422342">Fragile States</option> <option value="1421610">Global Health Policy</option> <option value="1425287">Technology</option> <option value="2664">Globalization</option> <option value="2665">Governance/Democracy</option> <option value="2671">Inequality</option> <option value="2666">International Financial Institutions</option> <option value="2669">Migration and Development</option> <option value="1422535">Population and Development</option> <option value="12955">Poverty</option> <option value="2672">Private Investment</option> <option value="2654">Regions</option> <option value="486">Trade</option> </select> <select name="expert"> <option value="">by Expert</option> <option value="1425212">Randall Akee</option> <option value="16350">Jenny Aker</option> <option value="14919">Dillon Alleyne</option> <option value="1424100">Abhijit Banerjee</option> <option value="1423544">Owen Barder</option> <option value="1423733">Pranab Bardhan</option> <option value="1424430">Edward Bbaale</option> <option value="1420998">Desmond Bermingham</option> <option value="483">Nancy Birdsall</option> <option value="13993">Chris Blattman</option> <option value="1422398">Thomas Bollyky</option> <option value="15098">Satish Chand</option> <option value="2570">Michael Clemens</option> <option value="2693">William R. 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