Finding ways to reduce the poverty that afflicts more than half the world's people is a core part of CGD's mission. But understanding the causes, and cures, for poverty alone is not enough. It would only be a partial victory if poor countries succeeded in improving their living standards, only to fall farther behind the world's wealthiest nations. The Center is therefore committed to reducing inequality: the enormous – and growing – gaps between the richest and poorest countries. CGD work in areas including global public health, aid effectiveness, foreign direct investment, trade, migration, and other areas, contributes to reducing poverty.
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 When the New York Times Magazine raised that provocative question in the title of an article last week, it included as part of the answer an interview with CGD visiting fellow Lant Pritchett and an extended discussion of the ideas raised in his controversial CGD book, Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility. The NYT writer, Jason DeParle, reported that even Pritchett's friends and supporters think his proposal for globalizing labor is ahead of its time. CGD research fellow Michael Clemens disagrees. In fact, he writes, Lant's idea that rich countries should host millions of low-skilled temporary workers is much like the system we already have--except that the visitors would be legal.
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 Globalization is creating fresh opportunities for hundreds of millions of people. But the gap between richest and poorest countries is widening and inequality within many countries is increasing. CGD president Nancy Birdsall will testify this week before a U.S. congressional committee on policies for fair growth in Latin America, where inequality, long a problem, is getting worse. On Friday she will answer your questions live online via Ask CGD.
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08/13/2007, David Roodman
07/09/2007, Nancy Birdsall and Peter Hakim
06/22/2004, David Roodman
03/16/2007, Samuel Bazzi, Sheila Herrling and Stewart Patrick
02/24/2003, Nancy Birdsall and Miguel Szekely
05/01/2003, Steven Radelet
04/16/2007, Michael Kremer and Alix Peterson Zwane
07/20/2005, Michael Clemens and Todd Moss
04/01/2002, Nancy Birdsall and Brian Deese
04/10/2002, Nancy Birdsall and John Williamson Assisted by Brian Deese
03/08/2007, Nancy Birdsall
06/01/2002, William Cline
04/01/2003, Nancy Birdsall and Michael Clemens
09/01/2003, Samuel Morley and David Coady
12/21/2002, Nancy Birdsall
04/01/2005, Nancy Birdsall and John Williamson
06/15/2007, Stewart Patrick and Kaysie Brown
09/10/2007, Michael Clemens
01/02/2002, Amar Hamoudi and Nancy Birdsall
10/23/2002, Shantayanan Devarajan, William R. Easterly and Howard Pack
03/31/2005, Nicolas van de Walle
03/23/2005, Nicolas van de Walle
03/14/2007, Neil McCulloch, C. Peter Timmer and Julian Weisbrod
09/10/2007, Nancy Birdsall and Peter Hakim
02/09/2005, Maureen Lewis, Gunnar Eskeland and Ximena Traa-Valerezo
10/17/2005, John Nellis and Nancy Birdsall, eds.
09/01/2002, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock
10/10/2007, David Roodman
03/01/2002, William Easterly
10/25/2007, David Roodman
07/18/2005, Todd Moss, David Roodman and Scott Standley
02/23/2003, Michael A. Clemens and Steven Radelet
06/01/2003, Lael Brainard, Carol Graham, Nigel Purvis, Steven Radelet, and Gayle Smith
07/23/2008, Peter Timmer and Selvin Akkus
05/01/2004, Michael A. Clemens, Charles J. Kenny and Todd J. Moss
12/28/2004, Nancy Birdsall and Rachel Menezes
06/01/2004, William Cline
11/10/2004, Jean O. Lanjouw and William Jack
05/28/2004, Kimberly Ann Elliott
07/19/2005, Steve Radelet and Bilal Siddiqi
11/23/2004, Nancy Birdsall
01/01/2001, Nancy Birdsall and Augusto de la Torre with Rachel Menezes
11/01/2003, Lant Pritchett
01/01/2003, Nancy Birdsall
03/30/2007, Sheila Herrling and Sarah Rose
05/01/2002, Nancy Birdsall and John Nellis
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