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	<title>Global Development: Views from the Center » Michael Clemens</title>
	
	<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment</link>
	<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>Africa’s Child Health Miracle: The Biggest, Best Story in Development</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/05/africas-child-health-miracle-the-biggest-best-story-in-development.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 19:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Clemens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8570</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Clemens - If you’re sick of the sad, hopeless stories coming out of Africa, here’s one that made my year. New statistics show that the rate of child death across sub-Saharan Africa is not just in decline—but that decline has massively accelerated, just in the last few years. From the middle to the end of the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Conflicting Visions of Rural Development in Uganda, One Inspiring Speech</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/two-conflicting-visions-of-rural-development-in-uganda-one-inspiring-speech.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Clemens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rural Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Clemens - How can the rural poor of Uganda achieve lasting opportunity, health, and security? One vision for this goal is the laudable enterprise of external charity, such as the efforts in Uganda encouraged by U.S. celebrities Tommy Hilfiger and Katie Holmes or the controversial work of Invisible Children. A starkly different approach is described below by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does the World Bank Board Have the Authority to Choose Jim Yong Kim as President?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/does-the-world-bank-board-have-the-authority-to-choose-jim-yong-kim-as-president.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Clemens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Financial Institutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Clemens - In a few days, the board of the World Bank will choose a new president. There are three candidates: an American physician and anthropologist (Jim Yong Kim), a Colombian economist (José Antonio Ocampo), and a Nigerian economist (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala). All 12 presidents in the 66-year history of the World Bank have been American. Lant Pritchett [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up Next: An Unprecedented Public Split on Drug Policy at the Summit of the Americas?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/up-next-an-unprecedented-public-split-on-drug-policy-at-the-summit-of-the-americas.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/up-next-an-unprecedented-public-split-on-drug-policy-at-the-summit-of-the-americas.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Clemens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summit of the Americas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Clemens - This weekend, leaders of the entire Western Hemisphere will gather in Colombia to discuss cooperation for development, including legal cooperation. Something new and remarkable this year is how far apart the leaders have grown—openly this time—on drug decriminalization. It’s an issue with potentially huge implications for development. Up north, the governments of the United States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Documents Reveal the Cost of “Ending Poverty” in a Millennium Village: At Least $12,000 Per Household</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/03/new-documents-reveal-the-cost-of-%e2%80%9cending-poverty%e2%80%9d-in-a-millennium-village-at-least-12000-per-household.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Clemens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evaluation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Villages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Clemens - Documents recently made public by the UK government reveal the cost of poverty reduction in the Millennium Villages Project, a self-described &#8220;solution to extreme poverty&#8221; in African villages created by Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs. The project costs at least US$12,000 per household that it lifts from poverty—about 34 times the annual incomes of those households. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Not Owned Cannot Be Stolen: Stop Dehumanizing African Health Workers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/03/what-is-not-owned-cannot-be-stolen-stop-dehumanizing-african-health-workers.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/03/what-is-not-owned-cannot-be-stolen-stop-dehumanizing-african-health-workers.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Clemens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Migration and Labor Mobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Clemens - I was sad and disgusted last week to see the highly-respected New York Times declare that “America is stealing the world’s doctors”. That article approvingly cites a horrific proposal to put recruiters of health workers on trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity. This is breathtakingly misguided. Recruiters do not ‘steal’ people. They give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Farm Workers from Developing Countries Take Jobs from Americans?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/do-farm-workers-from-developing-countries-take-jobs-from-americans.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/do-farm-workers-from-developing-countries-take-jobs-from-americans.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Clemens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Workers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Clemens - I spent last Friday in rural North Carolina, talking with American farmers who employ farmworkers from developing countries. I wanted to get the hard facts on whether or not those workers displace U.S. citizen labor. I spoke with the North Carolina Growers Association (NCGA), the largest employer of documented temporary farm labor from poor countries under the H-2A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does the U.S. Need and Want Low-Skill Haitian Workers? Yes: Just Look Around</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/does-the-u-s-need-and-want-low-skill-haitian-workers-yes-just-look-around.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/does-the-u-s-need-and-want-low-skill-haitian-workers-yes-just-look-around.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Clemens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration and Disaster Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration and Labor Mobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Clemens - Last month, a CGD initiative succeeded in getting Haitians access to America’s largest temporary work visa program. Access to this visa has the potential to unleash hundreds of millions of dollars of new income—at no cost to the United States—for Haitian families still coping with a catastrophic earthquake and the world’s worst cholera epidemic. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birth of Immigration Fiction: Watch a UK Minister Create an Economic Myth about Migration from Developing Countries</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/birth-of-immigration-fiction-watch-a-uk-minister-create-an-economic-myth-about-migration-from-developing-countries.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/birth-of-immigration-fiction-watch-a-uk-minister-create-an-economic-myth-about-migration-from-developing-countries.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Clemens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Migration and Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Clemens - Some myths leave us to wonder who dreamed them up. Other myths we can observe as they are born. Last week a UK minister created an economic myth about immigration to his country, and it’s useful to watch how and why it arose. First the fact: In January, an expert research team called the Migration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CGD Movie Event Jan. 23: Hope for Bipartisan Steps toward Sensible Regulation of Migration?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/01/cgd-movie-event-jan-23-hope-for-bipartisan-steps-toward-sensible-regulation-of-migration.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/01/cgd-movie-event-jan-23-hope-for-bipartisan-steps-toward-sensible-regulation-of-migration.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Clemens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On the Hill]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=7945</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Clemens - Washington’s partisan deadlock has drained the hopes of many who seek action on the challenges America faces. But even on one of the most toxic political issues—migration—there is room for hope. One sign of hope for bipartisan cooperation came earlier this week, when the administration added Haiti to the list of countries eligible for H-2 [...]]]></description>
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