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	<title>Global Development: Views from the Center &#187; Nancy Birdsall</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>A Missed Opportunity for Sensible US Action on IMF—And Why It Matters</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2013/03/a-missed-opportunity-for-sensible-us-action-on-imf-and-why-it-matters.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Financial Institutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMF]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - This week Senate appropriators failed to include an OK for an International Monetary Fund quota increase in the Senate version of the continuing resolution—the spending bill to keep open the US government for the remaining six months of the fiscal year 2013. The administration had requested Senate appropriators approve a transfer of previous US commitments from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Critical Moment for COD Aid or “The Trouble with Targets”</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2013/02/a-critical-moment-for-cod-aid-or-the-trouble-with-targets.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cash on Delivery Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evaluation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - Nancy Birdsall and William Savedoff. CGD is following the growing number of development programs that experiment with results-based approaches, many of them influenced by the concept of COD Aid. The design stage is important to a successful COD Aid agreement but a critical moment occurs when the first results are reported. Will the parties honor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Critical Moment for COD Aid or “How to Be Patient When It Matters”</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2013/02/a-critical-moment-for-cod-aid-or-how-to-be-patient-when-it-matters.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cash on Delivery Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QuODA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=10571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - Nancy Birdsall and William Savedoff. CGD is following the growing number of development programs that experiment with results-based approaches, many of them influenced by the concept of COD Aid. The design stage is important to a successful COD Aid agreement but a critical moment occurs when the first results are reported. Will the parties honor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could China and Its Fellow BRICS Nations Lead the Way on Climate Change?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2013/01/could-china-and-its-fellow-brics-nations-lead-the-way-on-climate-change.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BRIC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - This a joint post with Lawrence MacDonald and previously appeared in The Guardian. The stalemate in the latest round of climate negotiations, held in Doha, Qatar, last month, makes it clear that a fresh approach is needed if the world is to avert climate catastrophe. One part of the solution should be a new global climate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stata Status: Hats Off to Prize Winner David Roodman!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/12/stata-status-hats-off-to-prize-winner-david-roodman.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/12/stata-status-hats-off-to-prize-winner-david-roodman.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evaluation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - Related Content Q&#038;A with David Roodman I&#8217;m delighted to congratulate my colleague David Roodman on his winning the first ever Editor&#8217;s Prize of the Stata Journal for his 2009 and 2011 articles. Here is one of the more easily understood bits of the citation: Roodman’s formal education ended in 1990 with a Bachelor’s degree in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is India’s Middle Class Big Enough For. . . ?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/11/is-indias-middle-class-big-enough-for.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/11/is-indias-middle-class-big-enough-for.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle Class]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - This is a joint post with Christian Meyer. For global producers of consumer products, the rise of a middle class in India is great news. Dunkin’ Donuts, Starbucks, and IKEA have all recently announced they will move into the Indian market.  The Swedish furniture maker plans to invest up to €1.5 billion over the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India’s 4-10s: The New Not-Poor Not-Middle Class &#8212; and Its Implications?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/11/indias-4-10s-the-new-not-poor-not-middle-class-and-its-implications.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/11/indias-4-10s-the-new-not-poor-not-middle-class-and-its-implications.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle Class]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - I was in Delhi recently for the launch of CGD’s India Initiative. Along with CGD colleagues Lant Pritchett and Arvind Subramanian, I participated in a session hosted by Pratap Mehta of the Centre for Policy Research and moderated by Minister Jairam Ramesh (Minister of Rural Development, former Minister of Energy and Environment). Arvind blogged about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Middle Class and the Politics of Schooling in Latin America</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/10/the-new-middle-class-and-the-politics-of-schooling-in-latin-america.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/10/the-new-middle-class-and-the-politics-of-schooling-in-latin-america.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle Class]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - This is a joint post with Christian Meyer. Over the last decade, Latin America has seen solid economic growth combined with decreasing (but still very high) income inequality – lifting millions of people out of poverty and fueling the rise of a not-poor-but-not-rich “middle” class. Latin America’s frustrated middle class? Credit: Osmar Valdebenito / flickr [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put the UN General Assembly on The Daily Show! (Or Maybe Not?)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/09/put-the-un-general-assembly-on-the-daily-show-or-maybe-not.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/09/put-the-un-general-assembly-on-the-daily-show-or-maybe-not.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - Last week I gave a speech at the UN General Assembly (UNGA).  I was the keynote speaker for a session on the global economy and the Millennium Development Goals. I came away with mixed feelings. On one hand, the inefficiency of the UN can be maddening—the place is badly overdue for a good skewering on The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’ve Gone Back to School</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/09/ive-gone-back-to-school.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/09/ive-gone-back-to-school.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - Colleagues and friends of CGD: This week I started leave from CGD for three-plus months, to teach at Williams College. For those of you from the US west coast and outside the United States, Williams is among America’s most selective (and expensive!) small liberal arts colleges.  It’s nestled in a tiny town in the Berkshire mountains [...]]]></description>
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