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Save to My Portfolio Brookings Launches Africa Growth Initiative with Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

September 30, 2008

The Brookings Institution today announced the formation of a new research initiative on Africa’s development challenges that aims to draw more heavily on knowledge and analysis of African researchers. The Africa Growth Initiative, established in part with a $5.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will significantly expand Brookings’s expertise on development policy in and towards Africa, and begin to build stronger relationships between the Institution and the African policy and research community. Read More

Africa, Economic Development, Development, Globalization, Developing Countries

In Focus: Development


Reuters/Noel Koukou Tadegnon - A child pushes a bicycle through flood waters in northern Togo.

Save to My Portfolio Development in the Balance: How Will the World’s Poor Cope with Climate Change?

Friday, August 01, 2008
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Sunday, August 03, 2008
Aspen, CO

In its fifth annual gathering, the Brookings Blum Roundtable addressed the challenges of climate change and development and convened leaders from both the development and climate change communities to discuss and debate policy ideas that could benefit both fronts. By examining common challenges—accountability, effective deployment of resources, agenda-setting, mobilizing the public and financial resources, and achieving scale and sustainability—the roundtable established a solid foundation for collaboration in Africa and beyond. Read More

Development, Climate Change, Global Poverty, Developing Countries, Foreign Aid

Spotlight: Africa and the MDGs


Reuters/Mike Hutchings - Township children play around a communal tap sevicing the Imizamo Yethucommunity near Cape Town.

Save to My Portfolio Are the Millennium Development Goals Unfair to Africa?

Wednesday, February 06, 2008
11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Washington, DC

Brookings and the Center for Global Development hosted William Easterly for a presentation of his recent paper, “How the Millennium Development Goals Are Unfair to Africa.” Easterly discussed his analysis that most African countries’ predicted failure will result more from the design of the goals and how they are measured than from unique deficiencies in Africa’s development process.

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Africa, Global Governance, Development, Global Poverty, Global Health

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio A Reality Check on African Aid

Homi Kharas, February 20, 2008

President Bush recently concluded a trip to Africa, where he was received warmly throughout the five-nations he visited. During his administration, U.S. economic assistance to African nations has more than doubled and has been targeted, with some success, toward HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention—diseases that take a terrible toll on Africa's people. Homi Kharas analyzes U.S. prioritization and allocation of the pledged aid to put these accomplishments into perspective. Read More

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio Free Distribution Or Cost-Sharing? Evidence From A Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment

Jessica Cohen, Pascaline Dupas, December 2007

In a new Global working paper, Jessica Cohen studies malaria prevention efforts in detail, analyzing whether free distribution or cost-sharing of anti-malarial insecticide-treated nets in Kenya affects prevention of the disease. Read More

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio Nigeria's Economic Reforms: Progress and Challenges

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Philip Osafo-Kwaako, March 23, 2007

Following years of economic stagnation, Nigeria embarked on a comprehensive reform program during the second term of the Obasanjo administration. In a new working paper Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and  Philip Osafo-Kwaako review Nigeria's recent experience with economic reforms and outlines major policy measures that have been implemented. Read More

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio Reinvesting in Agriculture to Reduce Poverty

Homi Kharas, August 04, 2008

As part of an Oxford-style debate hosted by The Economist, Homi Kharas provides further reasoning that there is “an upside for humanity in the rise of food prices.” Higher prices provide incentives for increased food production and opportunities for raised incomes among the poor, and international donor support for the developing world has been accelerated due to this global crisis. Read More

In Brief

The Africa Growth Initiative conducts high-quality policy research and analysis focused on attaining sustainable economic development and prosperity in Africa, while amplifying the voice of African researchers in policy-making and planning.

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TOPICThe Presidential Transition

During the 77 days from the election to the Inauguration, Brookings experts will offer 12 "Memos to the President" on top policy priorities across the spectrum of domestic and global challenges, plus additional advice on transitioning from campaigning to governing.

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Eswar Prasad, the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University, is a senior fellow in Global Economy and Development. He was previously head of the Financial Studies Division and the China Division at the IMF.

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Darrell M. West is the vice president and director of Governance Studies at Brookings. His studies include campaigns and elections, political advertising, mass media, public opinion, technology policy and electronic government.

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