How to Sponsor a Refugee – Podcast with Ratna Omidvar on Canada’s Unique Program
Got 27,000 Canadian dollars? If so, why not sponsor a family of refugees? In this week's CGD podcast, Senator Ratna Omidvar discusses Canada’s experience of migration and refugees, and its unique...
View ArticleThe World Bank's New Safeguards: A Step Forward or Back? – Podcast with Scott...
A multi-year project just came to fruition with the endorsement by the Board of the World Bank of its new set of safeguards—the social and environmental standards that govern Bank-funded projects in...
View ArticleWe Can Fix Emergency Aid with Disaster Insurance – Podcast with Stefan Dercon...
When a disaster strikes, we are urged to send money, and many people do—but is there a better way to fund the relief effort? My guests this week, DFID chief economist Stefan Dercon and CGD senior...
View ArticleHow Does Change Happen? – Podcast with Duncan Green
Many in the development world call themselves change agents—campaigners, organizers, development workers, even researchers here at CGD. But how does change actually happen? My guest this week on the...
View ArticleThe 4 "P"s that Get Stuff Done – Podcast with ONE's Jamie Drummond
Almost a year since the adoption of the SDGs in a celebrity-endorsed fanfare, ONE cofounder Jamie Drummond and I discuss how the practice of advocacy has changed through time, and what organizations...
View ArticleHow Can We Create Immigration Policy that Works? – Podcast with Former...
How can we create an immigration policy that works? That's the subject of a new CGD report called "Shared Border, Shared Future." Former Mexican president and CGD working group co-chair Ernesto Zedillo...
View ArticleWhat World Leaders Should Know about Refugees and Migration – Podcast with...
The plight, peril, and potential of refugees and displaced people has been near the top of the political agenda around the world for many months, culminating in two large summits of world leaders...
View ArticleHow Can the Brown Education Commission Succeed? – Podcast with Bill Savedoff...
For this edition of the CGD Podcast I’m joined by Savedoff and Sandefur (who also leads our education research through the RISE project); they give a sneak peak of their contributions to, and offer an...
View ArticleMDBs Perform “Forward Defense of Our Security Interests” – Podcast with...
Lawrence H Summers, former US Treasury Secretary, Harvard professor, and the CGD Board Chair, explains why the World Bank and the regional multilateral development banks (MDBs) are well-placed to help...
View ArticleThe MDBs in a Changed World – Podcast with Nancy Birdsall and Scott Morris
The multilateral development banking (MDB) system is regarded as having been remarkably successful—but is the model still fit for purpose? CGD president Nancy Birdsall and senior fellow Scott Morris...
View ArticleHow to Tackle FGM and Early Marriage—and Still Respect Culture: Podcast with...
Changing the law is a good start, but real progress requires changing minds. On this week's CGD Podcast, former President of Malawi Joyce Banda and FGM survivor Kakenya Ntaiya explain why working with...
View Article3 Memos to the Next US President – Podcast with Nancy Birdsall
CGD founding president Nancy Birdsall has seen a few US presidents come and go in her long career as a leading development economist, but her message to all occupants of the White House has remained...
View ArticleWomen’s Economic Empowerment Is a Smart Investment – Podcast with Mayra Buvinic
CGD senior fellow Mayra Buvinic, an author on both Roadmaps, joins this week’s podcast to discuss what’s changed in the evidence base on women’s economic empowerment, and how the findings could appeal...
View ArticleCan a Swiss Bank Help Deliver the SDGs? – Podcast with CGD’s Theo Talbot and UBS
“Private sector” appears 18 times in the outcome document from last year’s UN financing for development conference in Addis Ababa—exactly the same number of times as “international cooperation.” In...
View ArticleBritain's Aid Budget: Money Well Spent? – CGD Podcast
Today we present a slightly unusual edition of the CGD Podcast. We are bringing you highlights of an excellent discussion held at CGD's offices in London which involved, among others, CGD’s Owen...
View ArticleWhy Forests? Why Now? – Podcast with Frances Seymour
Preventing dangerous climate change is critical for promoting global development. And saving tropical forests is essential to doing both. CGD senior fellow Frances Seymour, coauthor of a new CGD book,...
View ArticleDevelopment and the New Politics – Nancy Birdsall’s Final Podcast as CGD...
“We are going to have global markets still operating,” says Nancy Birdsall confidently, but “the big issue is, will we have a good global politics operating?" And that is indeed the question, as...
View ArticleDevelopment in 2016 – CGD Podcast
In 2016 on the CGD Podcast, we have discussed some of development's biggest questions: How do we pay for development? How do we measure the sustainable development goals (SDGs)? What should we do about...
View ArticleDevelopment Finance Institutions "a Proven Theory of Change"– Podcast with...
OPIC and CDC are among the largest bilateral development finance institutions (DFIs). They are designed to use their funds to attract more private capital into developing markets through, for example,...
View ArticleCommitment to Development Index 2016: How Development-Friendly Are Your...
Kudos to Finland in 2016 for ascending to the top spot in CGD’s annual Commitment to Development Index, our ranking of how a country’s policies help or hinder development. Other countries of note this...
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