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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.

Mar 31, 2015

Tanzania made a big discovery in 2012 – a deposit of offshore natural gas roughly equal to the per capita annual income of the average Tanzanian. Precedent would indicate that the country now faces a "resource curse," the paradox of having abundant natural resources but less than stellar growth. In this podcast,...


Mar 24, 2015

CGD senior fellow Ben Leo says that the United States is losing influence in the developing world due to its outdated development finance mechanisms. He shares his proposals for a US Development Finance...


Mar 17, 2015

Why is Africa underdeveloped? Is it the commonly-cited reasons of political corruption and colonization, or its modern counterpart, globalization? Kingsley Moghalu has his own ideas. He believes Africa's development potential lies in the hands of Africans themselves. Moghalu, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank...


Mar 10, 2015

Rules to name, shame, and punish banks, whose clients may funnel money to terror groups, are denying much-needed funds to developing countries. It’s a clash of two sets of sound policies, says Clay Lowery, former assistant secretary for international affairs at the US Treasury and the chair of a CGD working group on...