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	<title>Global Development: Views from the Center » Ben Leo</title>
	
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	<description>Global Development: Views from the Center features posts from Nancy Birdsall and her colleagues at the Center for Global Development about innovative, practical policy responses to poverty and inequality in an ever-more globalized world.</description>
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		<title>G-20 Endorses World Food Programme Hedging</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/06/g-20-endorses-world-food-programme-hedging.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[World Food Program]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Leo - This post is co-authored by Vijaya Ramachandran Last week, the G-20 agriculture ministers meeting in Paris issued a communiqué calling for the World Food Programme to develop hedging strategies to purchase food. In a little-noticed section towards the end of a 24-page document, the ministers stated: We invite the multilateral, regional and national development banks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memory of Stephen Everhart</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/06/in-memory-of-steven-everhart.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Leo - This is a joint post with Todd Moss We are saddened today with the news that our friend and colleague Stephen Everhart was killed yesterday in Baghdad.  Steve was in Iraq working to introduce a new university business curriculum, part of his life’s work to expand economic opportunities around the world.  We both got to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With Success, IDA Must Begin to Reinvent Itself</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/03/with-success-ida-must-begin-to-reinvent-itself.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/03/with-success-ida-must-begin-to-reinvent-itself.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=5550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Leo - Fast forward to the year 2025.  IDA will begin negotiating its 21st Replenishment Agreement.  As with every other replenishment since 1960, donor countries will sit around a table and haggle over what sectors to promote, how to measure IDA’s impact, and how to allocate its resources.  And, they will be fiercely negotiating how much money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Export Promotion Is Not the Same As Building Markets Abroad</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/02/what%e2%80%99s-the-first-step-for-consolidating-u-s-government-agencies-understanding-the-difference-between-export-promotion-and-international-development.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OPIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USTR]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=5357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Leo - Last month, President Obama laid out a bold pledge to consolidate and reorganize the federal government in support of a more competitive America.  If you missed that line, it was right before his joke about salmon being regulated by different agencies depending on whether they’re in fresh or salt water.  While President Obama specifically referenced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Quickly Are Countries Progressing Toward the MDGs? A New Interactive Web-App from CGD</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/01/how-quickly-are-countries-progressing-toward-the-mdgs-a-new-interactive-web-app-from-cgd.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=5224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Leo - This is a joint post with Ross Thuotte. The United Nations recently published the 2011 World Economic Situation and Prospects report, which asserts that Sub-Saharan Africa, and possibly parts of South Asia, are off-track for halving extreme poverty levels by 2015.  This must sound alarmingly dire and discouraging for those laboring long and hard to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sudan’s Bumpy Debt Road Will Run Through Where? Vienna?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/12/sudan%e2%80%99s-bumpy-debt-road-will-run-through-where-vienna.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Relief]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=4993</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Leo - This is a joint post with Ross Thuotte. Sudan’s crippling debt burden can be compared to an enormous onion – the story gets more and more complex as you begin peeling back the various layers.  Yesterday, we wrote about Sudan’s two largest creditors – Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.  But, there are countless other surprises beneath [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Global Fund Equity Index?  What An Intriguing Idea!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/12/a-global-fund-equity-index-what-an-intriguing-idea.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/12/a-global-fund-equity-index-what-an-intriguing-idea.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Fund]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=4981</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Leo - Today, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced an intriguing new partnership with the Dow Jones Indexes – a new line of stock market indices.  These new indices – led by the flagship Dow Jones Global Fund 50 Index – will measure the performance of the largest companies worldwide that support the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Are Sudan’s Two Biggest Creditors?  And Why Is It Something to Worry About?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/12/who-are-sudan%e2%80%99s-two-biggest-creditors-and-why-is-it-something-to-worry-about.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Relief]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Leo - This is a joint post with Ross Thuotte. Two countries alone hold over 25 percent of Sudan’s crippling $35 billion debt burden.  I’ll give you three guesses at who they might be.  China?  United States?  France?  All would be reasonable choices.  But, they also would be wrong.  In fact, Sudan’s two largest creditors are Kuwait [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Fiscal Commission Suggests Killing OPIC – The Government’s Cash Cow</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/11/u-s-fiscal-commission-suggests-killing-opic-government-cash-cow.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/11/u-s-fiscal-commission-suggests-killing-opic-government-cash-cow.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OPIC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Leo - Yesterday, the two Fiscal Commission co-chairs, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, put forward their long-awaited draft proposal.  I was looking forward to seeing bold, creative ideas for getting America’s fiscal house in order.  I wasn’t disappointed.  They leave no sacred public cow untouched.  However, one thing nearly made me fall out of the chair.  These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Replenishing IDA’s Coffers: Time to Get Creative</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/10/replenishing-ida%e2%80%99s-coffers-time-to-get-creative.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Development Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBRD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Leo - This afternoon, the World Bank’s shareholders will wrap up their latest discussions about replenishing IDA’s financial coffers – which provides cheap loans and grants to the world’s poorest countries.  The largest donors seem more or less content with the new package of policy reforms.  They have agreed that IDA should focus even more on evaluating [...]]]></description>
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