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	<title>Global Development: Views from the Center » Governance/Democracy</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>Why Democracies Fail: Lessons from Mali?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/03/why-democracies-fail-lessons-from-mali.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ethan Kapstein</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ethan Kapstein - The recent coups in the Maldives and Mali against democratically elected leaders, and the continuing political struggles in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya following the Arab Spring, are potent reminders that democracy is a fragile institution. In fact, of the 120 attempts at democratization that have occurred around the world since 1960, nearly half have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mali’s Coup, What’s Next, and Why I’ve been Accused of Resembling Sharon Stone</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/03/mali%e2%80%99s-coup-what%e2%80%99s-next-and-why-i%e2%80%99ve-been-accused-of-resembling-sharon-stone.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Moss</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fragile States]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Todd Moss - The news of the coup in Mali yesterday is a shock to those of us who have worked on this beautiful and amazing country. It is a tragedy for Malians, who have worked so hard to build what had been, until a few days ago, a shining model of democracy and economic progress.  It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Generation Chasm: Do Young Populations Have Elderly Leaders?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/the-generation-chasm-do-young-populations-have-elderly-leaders.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/the-generation-chasm-do-young-populations-have-elderly-leaders.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Moss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance/Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8020</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Todd Moss - This is a joint post with Stephanie Majerowicz. A colleague recently returned from Senegal and commented that she was struck by the vast gap between that country’s youthful population and its aged leader. President Abdoulaye Wade is 85 years old while the median Senegalese citizen is just 18.7 years old.  Perhaps that 66-year gap is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Haiti Doomed to be the Republic of NGOs?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/01/is-haiti-doomed-to-be-the-republic-of-ngos.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/01/is-haiti-doomed-to-be-the-republic-of-ngos.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijaya Ramachandran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance/Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=7828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Vijaya Ramachandran - This is a joint post with Julie Walz. Two years ago, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, plunging an already poor and unstable country into complete and utter chaos. In the days and weeks that followed, international responses and donations were overwhelming. Yet almost all of the assistance provided to Haiti has bypassed its government, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libya: Can Oil and Democracy Mix?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/libya-can-oil-and-democracy-mix.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/libya-can-oil-and-democracy-mix.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance/Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil to Cash]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=7699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - Libya’s oil puts at risk its hopes of becoming a democracy.&#160; If easy oil money is captured by a few people, and they then control politics, Libya will end up &#160;looking more like Angola and less like Norway.&#160; But there is a way out.&#160; Libya has yet to write its own Constitution.&#160; It’s not too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy and Development: The Spread of Biometric Voter Rolls</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/06/democracy-and-development-the-spread-of-biometric-voter-rolls.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/06/democracy-and-development-the-spread-of-biometric-voter-rolls.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Gelb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance/Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Gelb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biometrics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Gelb - This post is joint with Caroline Decker The application of biometrics to promote development and democratization is proceeding rapidly in the developing world—and largely below the radar of the media and development experts in high-income countries. Monitoring press releases on biometrics with the help of a news Google alert, I’ve been struck by the astonishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption Threatens to Undermine Climate Action – Transparency International</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/05/corruption-threatens-to-undermine-climate-action-transparency-international.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/05/corruption-threatens-to-undermine-climate-action-transparency-international.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 14:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele de Nevers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance/Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forest Monitoring for Action (FORMA)]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=5891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michele de Nevers - The latest Global Corruption Report from Transparency International (TI), launched May 5 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, tackles corruption and climate change. The message is stark: without better governance, transferring funds to developing countries to combat climate change could go awry. This would mean even less progress cutting the emissions of planet-heating gases, a squandering of scarce climate funds, and an intensified risk of dangerous, runaway climate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The United States Can Give Better Aid to Haiti</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/04/u-s-can-give-better-aid-to-haiti.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/04/u-s-can-give-better-aid-to-haiti.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance/Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Financial Institutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Modernizing U.S. Foreign Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Foreign Aid Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weak and Fragile States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=3831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - This commentary also appeared on The Huffington Post and Global Post Last week at a United Nations conference, donors pledged more than $10 billion to finance reconstruction and development investments in Haiti. The United States promised a hefty $1.15 billion. But pledging money is the easy part. The United States, the lead donor and friend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton, Innovation, and the MCC</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/01/comment-on-secretary-of-state-hillary-rodham-clinton%e2%80%99s-speech.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/01/comment-on-secretary-of-state-hillary-rodham-clinton%e2%80%99s-speech.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darius Nassiry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance/Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modernizing U.S. Foreign Assistance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=2796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Darius Nassiry - Secretary of State Clinton’s speech highlighted steps currently being taken to strengthen the role of development in U.S. foreign policy. First among these: a new emphasis on partnerships – “not only to the countries where we work, but to other countries and organizations working there as well.” Developing new partnerships requires a departure from business-as-usual. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the Plane Bomber, Where in the World is Nigeria’s President?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/01/after-the-plane-bomber-where-in-the-world-is-nigerias-president.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/01/after-the-plane-bomber-where-in-the-world-is-nigerias-president.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Moss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance/Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Todd Moss - This entry was also posted on the Huffington Post, AllAfrica, and Sahara Reporters. Amid all the media frenzy around the Nigerian underwear bomber and how America should have stopped him before he tried to blow up a passenger plane on Christmas Day, a critical piece to the counter-terrorism puzzle seems to have been missed: where [...]]]></description>
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