Sep 28, 2015
After hearing from Tony Pipa recently about the US take on the Post-2015 process, I sat down with David Hallam, UK Envoy for the Post-2015 Development Goals, to better understand the UK’s position on the recently agreed Global Goals.
What was the Envoy most pleased to see included in the Goals? Hallam emphasized that...
Sep 21, 2015
Are the Sustainable Development Goals achievable? If not, why do they matter? In this week's podcast, CGD's Nancy Birdsall and the ONE Campaign's Michael Elliott explain how creating a shared vision of the world's future is progress in itself.
Sep 15, 2015
How can we make humanitarian aid better? Give refugees cash. That’s the main recommendation of a high level panel convened by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), and chaired by CGD’s Owen Barder. How would that work? What have trials taught us? And what are the problems? I’m joined by two...
Sep 9, 2015
How can poor countries beat the resource curse? CGD research fellow Justin Sandefur returns to the Podcast hotseat to update us on a project that posed this question to ordinary people in Tanzania. CGD teamed up with REPOA to bring hundreds of Tanzanians to Dar es Salaam to debate what to do with that...
Sep 1, 2015
If anyone understands the nuances and political realities of the American position on each of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, it is Tony Pipa. As the US Chief Negotiator for the Post-2015 Process, he helped hammer out the wording of the final document and, when he visited CGD last week, he was keen to...