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International development experts share their ideas on how wealthy countries can promote prosperity in developing countries. Follow at cgdev.org/cgd-podcast.

PovcalNet Unchained – Justin Sandefur and Sarah Dykstra

Jun 23, 2014

If data wants to be free, then PovcalNet, the world’s leading dataset on global poverty, is happier today because it was recently made available for download in bulk by my guests on this week’s Wonkcast, CGD research fellow Justin Sandefur and research assistant Sarah Dykstra. Scraping the data was no easy task:...


Jun 23, 2014

If data wants to be free, then PovcalNet, the world’s leading dataset on global poverty, is happier today because it was recently made available for download in bulk by my guests on this week’s Wonkcast CGD research fellow Justin Sandefur and research assistant Sarah DykstraScraping the data was no easy task: it...


If China Sneezes, Will Latin America Catch Pneumonia? – Liliana Rojas-Suarez

Jun 16, 2014

My guest on this Wonkcast is CGD senior fellow Liliana Rojas Suarez, who serves as chair of the Latin American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (CLAAF). CLAAF is comprised of financial economists and former senior financial officials from the region who meet twice a year to study a current policy issue. They...


Jun 16, 2014

My Guest on this Wonkcast is CGD senior fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez, who serves as chair of the Latin American Financial Regulatory Committee (CLAAF). At thei recent meeting here at CGD, CLAAF members considered the question: How would a Chinese slowdown affect Latin America?


Deforestation by the Numbers – Jonah Busch and Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon

Jun 2, 2014

Spatially explicit econometric studies… say that five times fast.

My guests on this week’s Wonkcast are CGD’s Jonah Busch and Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon, who have conducted a meta-analysis of 117 such studies to discover what drives deforestation—and what actions slow or prevent it.

Their ambitious study, the...