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class="clear"></div> </div> <h1 class="title"> Inequality </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/20120101124159im_/http://www.cgdev.org/files/2671_image2_inequality.jpg" alt=""/> <div class="content-trimmed"><p>CGD works to reduce the enormous and growing gaps between the richest and poorest countries and to increase the recognition of the social and economic costs of extreme inequality within countries. The Center’s extensive work in these and related areas—including the inequality dimensions of such issues as global health, education, trade, and migration, among others—contributes to reducing poverty and inequality worldwide.</p></div> <div class="content-full" style="display:none"><p>CGD works to reduce the enormous and growing gaps between the richest and poorest countries and to increase the recognition of the social and economic costs of extreme inequality within countries. The Center’s extensive work in these and related areas—including the inequality dimensions of such issues as global health, education, trade, and migration, among others—contributes to reducing poverty and inequality worldwide.</p> <p>CGD president <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/experts/detail/483/">Nancy Birdsall</a> leads CGD’s work on the causes and effects of inequality. Her extensive work in this area includes the popular syllabus: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/detail/8958/">What to Read: Inequality and Development in a Globalizing World</a>. </p> <p>CGD also co-hosts the Globalization and Inequality Group (GLIG), an invitation-only forum jointly chaired by Birdsall and Carol Graham, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. The forum meets about four times a year.</p> <p><strong>Key Resources:</strong> </p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Fair Growth: Economic Policies for Latin America’s Poor and Middle-Income Majority, 01/17/2008, Nancy Birdsall, Agusto de la Torre, Rachel Menezes</li> <li>Reflections on the Macro Foundations of the Middle Class in the Developing World – Working Paper 130, 10/24/2007, Nancy Birdsall</li> <li>Income Distribution: Effects on Growth and Development – Working Paper 118, 04/16/2007, Nancy Birdsall</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/6284">Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy- Working Paper 81</a> 02/16/2006, Nancy Birdsall</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/4793/">The World is not Flat: Inequality and Injustice in our Global Economy</a> (WIDER lecture)10/31/2005 Nancy Birdsall</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2775">Asymmetric Globalization: Global Markets Require Good Global Politics - Working Paper 12</a>, 10/18/2002, Nancy Birdsall </li> </ul></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="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120101124159im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425795_image_Kapur_Vaishnav_quid_pro_quo.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425795"><em>Quid Pro Quo</em>: Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India - Working Paper 276</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 7, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>In developing countries where elections are costly and accountability mechanisms weak, politicians often turn to illicit means of financing campaigns. 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My guest on this week's Global Prosperity Wonkcast has a bold new idea. Paul Romer is a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, a non-resident...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <ul> </div> <div class="tab-box popular"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120101124159im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/14090_image_global_warming_and_agriculture.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14090">Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 12, 2007</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p> While the threat of global warming is increasingly accepted, little attention has been paid to the likely impact at the country level, especially in the developing world. 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He is the author of Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul></ul> </div> <div class="tab-box publications"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101124159im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425795_image_Kapur_Vaishnav_quid_pro_quo.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425795/"><em>Quid Pro Quo</em>: Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India - Working Paper 276</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 7, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In developing countries where elections are costly and accountability mechanisms weak, politicians often turn to illicit means of financing campaigns. This paper examines one such channel of illicit campaign finance: India’s real estate sector. 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They conclude with some... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101124159im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424922_image_Sumner_new_bottom_billion.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424922/">The New Bottom Billion: What If Most of the World's Poor Live in Middle-Income Countries?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 18, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Most of the world’s poor no longer live in low-income countries. An estimated 960 million poor people—a new bottom billion—live in middle-income countries, a result of the graduation of several populous countries from low-income status. That is good news, but it has repercussions. Donors will... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101124159im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424318_image_Cohen_thumbnail.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424318/">Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development - Working Paper 220</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 26, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> For the first time, the elderly, urban populations, and women of reduced fertility outnumber their counterparts. Joel E. Cohen discusses how changing demographic trends will require a heavier focus on primary and secondary education, reproductive health and demographically sensitive urban planning. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.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/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15198/">Young Democracies in the Balance: Lessons for the International Community</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 17, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Why do new democracies sometimes fail? This CGD brief by visiting fellow Ethan Kapstein explores the underlying reasons for frequent backsliding in the world's fledgling democracies and offers the international community recommendations for helping them stay on track toward political stability.... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.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="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101124159im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/15154_image_girls_count.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15154/">Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 14, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The wellbeing of adolescent girls in developing countries shapes global economic and social prosperity -- yet girls' needs often are consigned to the margins of development policies and programs. This new report describes why and how to provide adolescent girls in developing countries a full and... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.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="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101124159im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/14090_image_global_warming_and_agriculture.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14090/">Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 12, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> While the threat of global warming is increasingly accepted, little attention has been paid to the likely impact at the country level, especially in the developing world. In this new book, Bill Cline, a joint senior fellow at CGD and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, provides... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14379/">Helping the Bottom Billion: Is There a Third Way in the Development Debate?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 10, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Paul Collier's new book, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, argues that many developing countries are doing just fine and that the real development challenge is the 58 countries that are economically stagnant and caught in one or more "traps":... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/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/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14348/">Trade Policy for Development: Reforming U.S. Trade Preferences</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 4, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> By any measure, the United States is one of the most open economies in the world—importing more than $1 trillion worth of goods duty-free in 2006 alone. Yet poor nations still pay much higher U.S. tariffs than rich countries—an average of 15 percent on a quarter of their imports,... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.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/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13577/">Bilateral Guest Worker Agreements: A win-win solution for rich countries and poor people in the developing world</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 25, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Increased labor mobility offers potentially huge gains for the developing and developed world, but migration is massively unpopular in rich countries. In this CGD Brief, non-resident fellow Lant Pritchett lays out a solution that is beneficial to poor people and potentially politically acceptable... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.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/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13498/">Inexcusable Absence: Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren't in School and What to do About It (Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 16, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Remarkable increases in primary schooling over the past decade have brought gender equity to the education systems of many poor countries. But some 60 million girls are still not attending school. In this CGD brief, non-resident fellow Maureen Lewis and visiting fellow Marlaine Lockheed explain... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13452/">Will the Poor Be Flooded Out? The IPCC's Predicted Flood Disasters and Their Implications for Development Aid</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 9, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The April 5, 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report predicts that droughts and floods will become more frequent and severe as a result of global warming. In this CGD Note senior fellow David Wheeler shows that citizens of poor countries are much more likely than citizens in... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13380/">A Better Way Forward on Trade and Labor Standards</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 29, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Core labor standards--an end to forced and child labor, nondiscrimination, and respect for workers' right to organize--are important for sharing the benefits of globalization. But how to enforce them remains contentious. In this CGD Note, senior fellow Kimberly Elliott says that U.S. policy should... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13030/">African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 5, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Bill Easterly calls Moss' new introduction to Africa "compulsively readable and accessible" and "a masterpiece of clear thinking." Each chapter is organized around three fundamental questions: Where are we now? How did we get to this point? What are the current debates? CGD's package of materials... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/11898/">Inexcusable Absence: Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren't In School and What to do About It</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 4, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Girls' education is widely recognized as crucial to development. Yet there has been surprisingly little hardheaded analysis about what is keeping girls out of school, and how to overcome these barriers. In Inexcusable Absence, Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed present new research showing that... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101124159im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/10174_image_let_their_people_come.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/10174/">Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 12, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This controversial book argues that irresistible demographic forces for greater international labor mobility are being checked by immovable anti-immigration ideas of rich-country citizens. Pritchett proposes breaking the gridlock through policies that support development while also being... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/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/20120101124159/http://www.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/20120101124159/http://www.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="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101124159im_/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/20120101124159/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=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2870/">U.S. Pledges of Aid to Africa: Let's Do the Numbers</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 19, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Before the G-8 Summit, President Bush said that U.S. aid to Africa had tripled since he took office and would double again by 2010. CGD’s Steve Radelet and Bilal Siddiqi find that total U.S. aid to the region has doubled, but not tripled, since 2000, continuing an upward trend that began in 1996.... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2863/">The Global War on Terror and U.S. Development Assistance: USAID allocation by country, 1998-2005 - Working Paper 62</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 18, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The launch of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) soon after September 11, 2001 has been predicted to fundamentally alter U.S. foreign aid programs. In particular, there is a common expectation that development assistance will be used to support strategic allies in the GWOT, perhaps at the expense of... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101124159im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2869_image_vaccine_cover.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2869/">Making Markets for Vaccines: Ideas to Action</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 7, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Making Markets for Vaccines: Ideas to Action presents the proposal from theory to practice, by showing how a commitment can be consistent with ordinary legal and budgetary principles. A draft contract term sheet is included, highlighting the key elements of a credible guarantee. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2794/">Big Sugar and the Political Economy of US Agricultural Policy</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 1, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Sugar is a prototypical case of a policy that favors the few at the expense of the many. Thanks to a government policy that supports prices by sharply restricting imports, a small number of American sugar cane and beet growers are enriched at the expense of US consumers and of more efficient... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.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="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101124159im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2871_image_overcomingstagnationaiddependentcountries.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2871/">Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 31, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In this book, Nicolas van de Walle identifies 26 countries that are extremely poor and grew little if at all in the 1990s. His sample excludes North Korea and countries where civil war explains some of their failure to grow (Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tajikistan and others). The 26 countries... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.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/20120101124159/http://www.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/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2733/">Primary Health Care in Practice: Is It Effective? - Working Paper 55</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 9, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Primary health care is accepted as the model for delivering basic health care to low income populations in developing countries. Using El Salvador as a case study, the paper draws on three data sets and a qualitative survey to assess health care access and utilization across public and private... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.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=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2738/">Food Security and Economic Growth: An Asian Perspective - Working Paper Number 51</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 13, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Paradoxically, in most successfully developing countries, especially those in the rice-based economies of Asia, the public provision of food security quickly slips from its essential role as an economic stimulus into a political response to the pressures of rapid structural transformation, thereby... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/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=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2740/">Food Security in Indonesia: Current Challenges and the Long-Run Outlook - Working Paper Number 48</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 12, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper reviews research on the impact of rice prices on the poor, on real wages in rural and urban areas, and on the broader macroeconomic consequences for investments in labor-intensive manufacturing. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2842/">Trading Up: How Much Should Poor Countries Pay to Support Pharmaceutical Innovation</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 10, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This brief outlines how a global structure of pharmaceutical prices may be determined to balance both the efficiency and the social equity concerns that arise in dealing with countries with widely disparate needs and incomes. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2746/">Towards a New Consensus for Addressing the Global Challenge of the Lack of Education - Working Paper 43</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 29, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper is part of the Copenhagen Consensus process, which aims to assess and evaluate the opportunities available to address the ten largest challenges facing the world. One of these ten challenges is the “lack of education.” This paper provides an analytical framework to evaluate the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/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="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101124159im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2908_image_tradepolicy_small.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2908/">Trade Policy and Global Poverty</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 1, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Trade Policy and Global Poverty by William Cline examines how changes in trade policies in the United States and other industrial countries could help reduce poverty in developing countries. Cline first reviews the extent of global poverty and its relationship to trade and growth. He then examines... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/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/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2749/">The Trouble with the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success - Working Paper 40</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 1, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> *REVISED Version September 2004 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are unlikely to be met by 2015, even if huge increases in development assistance materialize. The rates of progress required by many of the goals are at the edges of or beyond historical precedent. Many countries making... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2753/">The Road to Pro-Poor Growth: The Indonesian Experience in Regional Perspective - Working Paper 38</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 5, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> "Pro-poor growth" is the new mantra of the development community. This exploratory essay, commissioned by the Indonesia Project at Australian National University (ANU), places this new interest in pro-poor growth in regional perspective and then attempts to draw historical and policy lessons for... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2754/">The Long Walk to School: International Education Goals in Historical Perspective - Working Paper 37</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 16, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This work quantifies how long it has taken countries rich and poor to make the transition towards high enrollments and gender parity. It finds that many countries that have not raised enrollments fast enough to meet the Millennium Development Goals have in fact raised enrollments extraordinarily... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423426/">U.S. Foreign Assistance After September 11th: Testimony for the House Committee on International Relations</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 26, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> U.S. Foreign Assistance After September 11th Testimony for the House Committee on International Relations, February 26, 2004 </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2755/">Boom Towns and Ghost Countries: Geography, Agglomeration, and Population Mobility - Working Paper 36</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 18, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Ghost towns dot the West of the United States. These cities boomed for a period and then, for various reasons, fell into a process of decline and have shrunk to a small fraction of their former population. Are there ghost countries—countries that, if there were population mobility, would only... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/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/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2758/">Who is not Poor? Proposing a Higher International Standard for Poverty - Working Paper 33</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 1, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Poverty reduction is now, and quite properly should remain, the primary objective of the World Bank. But, when the World Bank dreams of a world free of poverty—what should it be dreaming? I argue in this essay that the dream should be a bold one, that treats citizens of all nations equally in... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2856/">Trading Up: Trade Policy and Global Poverty</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 1, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This policy brief is a preview of the analysis and recommendations in Trade Policy and Global Poverty, by William R. Cline. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101124159im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2913_image_social_cover.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2913/">From Social Assistance to Social Development: Targeted Education Subsidies in Developing Countries</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 1, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The book compiles a vast amount of unpublished and published material on existing CTE programs and their impact on poverty. Groundbreaking case studies and detailed evaluations of programs in Mexico, Brazil, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Chile add up to an unusual and surprising success... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/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="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120101124159im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2914_image_otherwarDS.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2914/">The Other War: Global Poverty and the Millennium Challenge Account</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 1, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This book tackles head on the tension between foreign policy and development goals that chronically afflicts U.S. foreign assistance; the danger of being dismissed as one more instance of the United States going it alone instead of buttressing international cooperation; and the risk of exacerbating... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/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/20120101124159/http://www.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/20120101124159/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2767/">The Millennium Challenge Account: How Much is Too Much, How Long is Long Enough? - Working Paper 23</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 23, 2003</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The US government's proposed $5 billion Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) could provide upwards of $250-$300m or more per year per country in new development assistance to a small number of poor countries judged to have relatively "good" policies and institutions. 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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/20120101124159/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/20120101124159/http://www.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. 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This paper presents eight... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120101124159/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/20120101124159/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. 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