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	<title>Global Development: Views from the Center » Steve Radelet</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>Liberia Cuts its Debt with $1.2 Billion Buy-Back at 97 Percent Discount</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/04/liberia-cuts-its-debt-with-12-billion-buy-back-at-97-percent-discount.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Radelet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debt Relief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Financial Institutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Radelet - In a huge step forward, this week Liberia slashed its foreign debt by buying back $1.2 billion in commercial debt &#8212; about one-quarter of its foreign debt &#8212; from its private foreign creditors, including banks, hedge funds, and other “distressed debt” investment funds. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced today that the Government had purchased the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wal-Mart and the AFL-CIO Agree: The U.S. Can (and Must) Do a Better Job Fighting Poverty, Disease, and Lack of Opportunity in the Developing World</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/03/wal-mart-and-the-afl-cio-agree-the-us-can-and-must-do-a-better-job-fighting-poverty-disease-and-lack-of-opportunity-in-the-developing-world.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Radelet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USAID]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Radelet - This is a joint posting with David Beckmann, originally appearing on the Huffington Post Web site on March 17, 2009. In the face of big global challenges, President Obama has rightly called for a new, smarter U.S. foreign policy that focuses on bolstering our long-term security, building our alliances, and expanding global prosperity. A central [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Mr. President-Elect, Some Early Steps to Begin Elevating Development</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/11/dear-mr-president-elect-some-e.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/11/dear-mr-president-elect-some-e.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Radelet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration and Labor Mobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modernizing U.S. Foreign Assistance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Radelet - This is a joint posting with Sheila Herrling This week the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, a fast-growing bipartisan coalition of international development and foreign policy leaders that I am privileged to co-chair, will be sending to the Presidential Transition Team its recommendations for jump-starting the process of strengthening our development programs. A growing number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberia is Moving Forward and Here’s Your Chance to Participate</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/04/liberia-is-moving-forward-and.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/04/liberia-is-moving-forward-and.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Radelet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Radelet - Exciting things happening in Liberia right now, especially at the Ministry of Finance. I am pleased to announce the Liberian Minister of Finance, Dr. Antoinette Sayeh, will be speaking at a CGD event later this month. Minister Sayeh will offer an overview of recent developments in Liberia covering debt relief, Liberia&#8217;s Poverty Reduction Strategy, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMF Announces Financing For Liberia’s Debt Relief: A Good Start</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2007/11/imf-announces-financing-for-li.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2007/11/imf-announces-financing-for-li.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Radelet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debt Relief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Radelet - Good news! The IMF has finally moved forward on Liberian debt relief. Yesterday&#8217;s IMF announcement that it has agreed on the necessary financing was a strong endorsement by the international community of Liberia&#8217;s progress under its new government. It took more than a year of pushing and prodding, but Liberia now can formally begin the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of An African Nightmare: Steve Radelet Writes from Liberia</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2007/10/the-end-of-an-african-nightmar.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2007/10/the-end-of-an-african-nightmar.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Radelet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance/Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Radelet - The following post was first published on Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times blog, where Radelet, a CGD senior fellow, is one of several guest bloggers. Radelet lived for many years in Africa and Asia, taught at Harvard, and worked at the U.S. Treasury. He is currently serving as an economic advisor for President Ellen Johnson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economics and Politics of CARE’s Decision to Pass Up Millions in U.S. Food Aid</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2007/08/the-economics-and-politics-of.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2007/08/the-economics-and-politics-of.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Radelet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Foreign Aid Reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Radelet - I join my colleague Rachel Nugent in offering Three Cheers for CARE Decision to Forego U.S. Food Aid! U.S. food aid has a long and complicated history. Most people think of food aid as &#8220;doing good&#8221;&#8212;feeding the starving&#8212;and it is often used for this purpose. However, large amounts of food aid are sold to finance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With the G8 Push for More Aid, Are Donors Spending More Selectively?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2007/06/with-the-g8-push-for-more-aid.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2007/06/with-the-g8-push-for-more-aid.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Radelet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Radelet - The G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, this week will focus global attention on African development and broader foreign assistance issues. Many analysts are examining the G8&#8242;s progress towards its pledge to double foreign assistance to Africa by 2010, made two years ago at the summit at Gleneagles, Scotland. Initial partial evidence suggests that while progress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Presidential Candidates Put Development on the Agenda</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2007/04/us-presidential-candidates-put.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2007/04/us-presidential-candidates-put.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Radelet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Radelet - Barack Obama&#8217;s powerful foreign policy speech in Chicago on Monday laid out a clear vision for regaining US leadership in the world, including on critical issues confronting the poorest countries of the world. Senator Obama called for strengthening the operations of the United Nations, World Bank and other multilateral institutions to solve the world&#8217;s most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted: A Few Good Women and Men for the Scott Family Liberia Fellows</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2007/03/wanted-a-few-good-women-and-me.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2007/03/wanted-a-few-good-women-and-me.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Radelet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Radelet - Want a challenge? Here is your chance &#8212; or a chance for someone you know &#8212; to get directly involved in helping a key African country get back on its feet after years of civil war and incompetent management. Liberia’s civil war killed over 270,000 people, destroyed basic infrastructure, and left the country in ruins. [...]]]></description>
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