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| Todd Moss |
| Todd Moss is vice president for programs and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. |
| Social Covenants Must Precede Social Contracts |
| Seth Kaplan | 04/09/13 |
| Fragile states that do not first forge a social covenant will later find it difficult to codify justice in a social contract. | |
| Send Salads to Ethiopia, and Solar Panels to Senegal |
| Todd Moss | 12/06/12 |
| We wouldn't send salads as food relief to a starving country, so why is the Overseas Private Investment Corporation doing the equivalent in the energy sector? | |
| Forecasting the Future of Countries |
| Seth Kaplan | 11/05/12 |
| Measuring how countries develop is all the rage, but are these indicators examining the most appropriate data? Seth Kaplan says it's time we start looking more at social and political performance. | |
| How Academia Has Failed the Development Field |
| Seth Kaplan | 08/29/12 |
| The hyper-quantification of economics has encouraged an erroneous belief that politics and institutions do not matter. To fix this we must create a separate academic profession focused on political development, and the politics of development. | |
| Anya Schiffrin |
| Anya Schiffrin is director of the International Media, Advocacy and Communications Specialization at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.. |
| City Development States: Why Lagos Works Better than Nigeria |
| Seth Kaplan | 05/29/12 |
| With a national government plagued by corruption and poisoned by dependence on oil money, state- and city-led development may be the best way for Nigeria to achieve progress. | |
| David Steven |
| David Steven specializes in risk and resilience as a non-resident fellow at the Center on International Cooperation. |
| Doing Development Better |
| Dani Rodrik | 05/14/12 |
| The best recent work in development policy indicates a convergence around diagnostic, pragmatic, experimental, and context-specific strategies. | |
| Do World Bank Country Classifications Hurt the Poor? |
| Seth Kaplan | 03/12/12 |
| The incoming World Bank president should create a more sophisticated system for classifying countries as low or middle income, using broad development indicators. | |
| Aniruddha Bonnerjee |
| Aniruddha Bonnerjee is an applied economist based in Kolkata, India and currently the owner of Policymetrixa, a research think tank specializing in socioeconomic development and bespoke quantitative data analyses. |
| Ike Okonta |
| Ike Okonta, an Abuja-based policy analyst and writer, is currently a fellow of the Open Society Institute, New York. |
| The Nigerian Crucible |
| Ike Okonta | 02/01/12 |
| With a corrupt and rudderless government, Africa's most populous country has resumed its dance on the edge of the precipice. Its poor and powerless citizens are demanding transparency and accountability. | |
| The Strategy to Eradicate Polio |
| Bruce Aylward | 06/06/11 |
| Almost isn't good enough with a disease this terrifying, says Bruce Aylward. He lays out the plan to snuff out polio everywhere, forever. | |
| Clean Trade in Natural Resources |
| Leif Wenar, John Tessitore | 06/02/11 |
| Consumers are often unwittingly in business with dictators, corrupt officials, and armed groups, says Leif Wenar. Yet we could change our laws to make powerful groups in exporting countries accountable to their own people. | |
| Solar Electric Light Fund |
| Better Safe than Sorry |
| Susan Aaronson, Ian Higham | 02/28/11 |
| Corporate executives should never have to apologize for violations when they can instead build global opportunities by advancing human rights. | |
| Innovating Sovereign Wealth Funds |
| Saleem H. Ali, Gary Flomenhoft | 02/17/11 |
| As we struggle to tackle financial and ecological sustainability, sovereign wealth funds such as in Alaska deserve far greater attention for positive adoption. | |
| Assessing Progress in Africa toward the MDGs |
| 09/23/10 | |
| There are indicators of hope in Africa with a 50 percent decrease in malaria in 15 countries and nine countries reaching 90 percent access to safe drinking water, yet this report also stresses Africa's struggle to meet health targets. | |
| The World Still Loves Obama |
| Bruce Stokes | 06/17/10 |
| American soft power, eroded through much of the last decade, has rebounded despite the economic crisis, Afghan escalation, and failure to take steps against climate change. | |
