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Management Consulting to Improve Quality of Care: A Field Experiment in Nigeria

Management Consulting to Improve Quality of Care: A Field Experiment in NigeriaEvent6/30/16Is there a way to improve health care services amidst the limited physical and human capital in some...

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The Marginal Product of Government Capital

The Marginal Product of Government Capital Event7/21/16Measuring the returns to government capital is difficult because the services of government capital typically are provided free of charge. This...

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Emergency Aid is Broken: Using Insurance to Make Disasters Dull

Emergency Aid is Broken: Using Insurance to Make Disasters Dull Event7/19/16Millions of people live with the risk of rapid-onset disasters like cyclones, slow-onset disasters like drought, or the...

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Expanding opportunities for the poor in middle income developing countries

Expanding opportunities for the poor in middle income developing countriesEvent7/27/16In many developing countries including South Africa, there is a stale debate regarding poverty over priorities...

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The Asian Development Bank at 50: Adapting for a New Era in Development Finance

The Asian Development Bank at 50: Adapting for a New Era in Development FinanceEvent9/8/16With the 50th anniversary of ADB as a backdrop, this event will examine how the bank is adapting to the...

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Shared Border, Shared Future: A Blueprint to Regulate US-Mexico Labor Mobility

Shared Border, Shared Future: A Blueprint to Regulate US-Mexico Labor MobilityEvent9/13/16Mexico and the United States have lacked a bilateral agreement to regulate cross-border labor mobility since...

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Multilateral Development Banking for This Century's Development Challenges

Multilateral Development Banking for This Century's Development ChallengesEvent10/7/16Join us for a discussion of the new report by CGD’s High Level Panel on the Future of Multilateral Development...

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$50 Billion in One Room: How Can Development Finance Institutions Unleash the...

$50 Billion in One Room: How Can Development Finance Institutions Unleash the Private Sector? Event10/6/16Please join us for a unique event, where we will hear from the heads of five development...

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The Birdsall House Conference on Women: Beyond-Aid Approaches to Promoting...

The Birdsall House Conference on Women: Beyond-Aid Approaches to Promoting Gender Equality Event11/2/16The Birdsall House Conference Series on Women seeks to identify and bring attention to leading...

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Women's Economic Empowerment: What Works and How to Measure It

Women's Economic Empowerment: What Works and How to Measure ItEvent11/3/16Co-hosted by Data2X/UN Foundation, and International Development Research Centre and CGD, the session will discuss, first, new...

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Ethnic Diversity and Nation Building: Evidence from Population Resettlement...

Ethnic Diversity and Nation Building: Evidence from Population Resettlement in IndonesiaEvent10/19/16Can nation building be achieved by promoting social integration and a national identity among groups...

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Girl Summit DC 2016: Keeping Our Promises to Adolescent Girls

Girl Summit DC 2016: Keeping Our Promises to Adolescent GirlsEvent10/20/16Please join the International Women's Health Coalition, Center for Global Development, Girls Not Brides USA, and Population...

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How Can Finance Ministries Support a Sustainable HIV Response?

How Can Finance Ministries Support a Sustainable HIV Response?Event11/28/16

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Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?

Should Rich Nations Help the Poor? Event11/29/16In his new book Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?, leading poverty analyst Professor David Hulme explains why helping the world's neediest communities...

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What Have We Learned? Improving Development Policy Through Impact Evaluation

What Have We Learned? Improving Development Policy Through Impact EvaluationEvent12/6/16In 2006, CGD released a working group report titled “When Will We Ever Learn? Improving Lives Through Impact...

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Providing Quality Education in Afghanistan: Latest Research Findings

Providing Quality Education in Afghanistan: Latest Research Findings Event12/2/16How can we ensure that girls and boys living in conflict-affected regions have equitable access to quality education? We...

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Why Forests? Why Now? A Best Bet for Climate and Development

Why Forests? Why Now? A Best Bet for Climate and DevelopmentEvent12/7/16In uncertain political times, the world needs solutions that enjoy broad-based support. Drawing on more than 20 research papers...

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Payouts for Perils: Making Emergency Aid Better, Faster, and Fairer—Official...

Payouts for Perils: Making Emergency Aid Better, Faster, and Fairer—Official Side Event to the 2nd High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development...

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The Obama Administration’s Development Legacy: A Conversation with Gayle Smith

The Obama Administration’s Development Legacy: A Conversation with Gayle SmithEvent12/7/16As the Obama Administration heads into its final months, USAID Administrator Gayle Smith offers a look at how...

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Does Mass Deworming Affect Child Nutrition?

Does Mass Deworming Affect Child Nutrition?Event12/8/16The WHO has recently debated whether to reaffirm its long-standing recommendation to deliver deworming drugs en masse to children in places with...

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