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	<title>Global Development: Views from the Center » Poverty</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>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>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 Does It Mean to Be Low Income?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/07/what-does-it-mean-to-be-low-income.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/07/what-does-it-mean-to-be-low-income.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Kenny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Charles Kenny - Andy Sumner and I recently wrote about the fact that the number of low income countries in the world is rapidly shrinking –which is great news because it suggests poor countries are getting richer.  But how much does graduating to ‘middle income’ mean?  Here’s how the original income classification came about, according to the World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How 28 Poor Countries Escaped the Poverty Trap</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/07/how-28-poor-countries-escaped-the-poverty-trap.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/07/how-28-poor-countries-escaped-the-poverty-trap.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Sumner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Getting Better]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty Trap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Andy Sumner - This is a joint post with Charles Kenny Zambia and Ghana are the 27th and 28th countries the World Bank has reclassified as middle-income since the year 2000 Doctors perform cataract surgery at the Lusaka Eye Hospital in Zambia. It&#8217;s inexpensive and it changes people&#8217;s lives instantly, so it&#8217;s a good example of how just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Aid Work? Written Testimony Submitted to the House of Lords</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/07/can-aid-work-written-testimony-submitted-to-the-house-of-lords.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/07/can-aid-work-written-testimony-submitted-to-the-house-of-lords.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - Living in Ethiopia for the last three years, I saw aid working every day. I saw children going to school, health workers in rural villages, and food or cash preventing hunger for the poorest people.  The academic debates about aid effectiveness seem surreal when you are surrounded by tangible, visible evidence of the huge difference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting with Central America through Research</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/07/connecting-with-central-america-through-research.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/07/connecting-with-central-america-through-research.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liliana Rojas-Suarez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central America]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Liliana Rojas-Suarez - Central America experienced almost a decade of economic progress between 2003 and 2008, when GDP per capita growth averaged 3 percent per year. Yet the region’s five countries–Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua–still lag other middle income economies. Their high dependence on their primary commodities and the U.S. economy makes the growth slow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News: History Does Not Equal Destiny</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/06/good-news-history-%e2%89%a0-destiny.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/06/good-news-history-%e2%89%a0-destiny.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Kenny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Kenny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Getting Better]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Income]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Charles Kenny - Five years ago, probably the most positive you could be about global development was to argue that, despite a sluggish performance in reducing global income poverty connected to slow-changing institutions, broader quality of life in areas like education and  health had improved everywhere.  That’s pretty much the story I told in Getting Better.  But since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Do Impact Evaluations Because…</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/05/don%e2%80%99t-do-impact-evaluations-because%e2%80%a6.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/05/don%e2%80%99t-do-impact-evaluations-because%e2%80%a6.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 19:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Savedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evaluation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evaluation Gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Impact Evaluations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Savedoff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6059</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By William Savedoff - Recently, I was called for advice by someone who will be running a workshop attended by people who implement and evaluate programs. She asked me to help her anticipate the main objections raised against doing impact evaluations—evaluations that measure how much of an outcome can be attributed to a specific intervention&#8211;and to suggest possible responses. [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration and Labor Mobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modernizing U.S. Foreign Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Foreign Aid Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weak and Fragile States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>

		<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>Mitch Smith Wins Trip to Africa with Nick Kristof!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/03/mitch-smith-wins-trip-to-africa-with-nick-kristof.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/03/mitch-smith-wins-trip-to-africa-with-nick-kristof.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Edwards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Kristof]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Win a trip]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=3459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Edwards - This is a joint post with Katherine Douglas and Sandy Stonesifer. After three months, 893 applications, and a lot of effort by bright university students across the United States, New York Times columnist Nick Kristof selected Nebraska native Mitch Smith to join him on a reporting trip to Africa. Those of you who entered or [...]]]></description>
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