Rethinking US Foreign Assistance: The Obama Administration’s Economic Strategy for Africa: CGD Event Tomorrow
Updated: 2012-07-30 15:56:43
By Sarah Jane Staats - We’re delighted to be hosting Michael Froman, President Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor and Assistant for International Economics, tomorrow for a discussion of the Obama administration’s strategy for poverty alleviation and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Froman recently led a US interagency delegation to Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria to meet with government officials, private [...]
By Nancy Birdsall - Last week our CGD and Peterson Institute colleague Arvind Subramanian called on the IMF to speak truth to power, in an elegant cri de coeur in the Financial Times. The IMF, he notes: “has not provided independent intellectual leadership, most evidently on the eurozone crisis. And it is unprepared to provide stability for the next [...]
By Kimberly Ann Elliott - This is a joint post with Jenny Ottenhoff. Last month, one of us wrote that Congress seemed to have compromised and reached a bipartisan deal to extend the rule (known technically but awkwardly as the third-country fabric rule) that allows poor African countries to export clothing to the United States duty-free under the African Growth and [...]
By Rita Perakis - The UK International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell, announced yesterday that DFID has a new open access policy, which will require all researchers receiving DFID funding to make their findings available for free online. Publishing results in journals or websites that charge for access will no longer cut it because this prices out some groups, including [...]
By Amanda Glassman - This is a joint post with Rachel Silverman and Victoria Fan. This month, both Health Affairs and the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (JAIDS) released special thematic issues on the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in which the articles – mainly commentaries but some analyses – provide an exceptionally positive readout [...]
By Denizhan Duran - One of the many interesting sessions at the International AIDS Conference was on how PEPFAR and the Global Fund could collaborate more strategically to maximize impact. The motivation for this kind of collaboration isn’t news to anyone in global health: at a time of budget austerity and flat lining aid contributions, a great way to [...]
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By Mead Over - Video of the debate may be viewed here. Yesterday was an exciting day for me. In a debate at the World Bank timed to coincide with the International AIDS Conference a colleague and I took an unpopular position against two development celebrities in front of a potentially hostile audience and changed some minds. The proposition [...]
By William Savedoff - Corruption in aid programs is a cyclical topic. Every scandal generates headlines, political reaction, tighter controls and then, usually, silence until the next scandal erupts. Such cycles are not helpful and we never really find out if such corruption is large and systematic or small and isolated. Last year I commented on press exaggerations of [...]
By Orin Levine - This post originally appeared on Huffington Post. Global health has not figured prominently in the US presidential campaigns so far. Jobs and the economy are the major issues, and the weak growth in new jobs from the most recent report has done nothing to change that. And like all recent Presidential elections, this one is likely to [...]
By Lawrence MacDonald - World Bank president Jim Kim delivered a speech and responded to questions today at Brookings in his first public event since taking the helm at the world’s top development organization on July 1. He struck me as thoughtful, well-informed, articulate and dedicated to multilateralism and the bank’s mission of reducing global poverty. You can see [...]
By Owen Barder - Before he became the UK Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell was scathing about the habit of having big international conferences to ‘put large sums of money on the table’. Yet on Wednesday, the British Government and Melinda Gates co-hosted the ‘London Summit on Family Planning’, a huge international conference at which rich countries and [...]
By Owen Barder - The always-insightful Duncan Green discusses on his blog why migration is a ‘Cinderella issue’ in development, following a talk by Michael Clemens at a lunchtime meeting in London hosted by CGD in Europe and IPPR. Duncan says part of the problem may be the ‘sedentary prejudice’: Development organisations cherish a mental image of happy peasants, [...]