RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Homi Kharas, Johannes F. Linn and Noam Unger, July 22, 2009, The Brookings Institution
Although the Obama administration faces serious challenges at home and abroad, Homi Kharas, Johannes Linn and Noam Unger call for greater attention to the world's poor. The experts provide recommendations on how the Obama administration can begin to improve America's critical role in global development. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jane Nelson and Noam Unger, May 13, 2009, The Brookings Institution
As the Obama administration and Congress work to reform an outdated foreign assistance system, they have an opportunity to adapt official U.S. efforts to more effectively and efficiently support global development in partnership with businesses and civil society. Jane Nelson and Noam Unger recommend ways the U.S. government can better position itself within the 21st century global development ecosystem.
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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Noam Unger and Frederick Barton, April 21, 2009, The Brookings Institution
Critical stabilization and reconstruction missions abroad must not only be viewed through the lenses of short-term goals or military operations, but as a key step in supporting sustainable economic development. In a workshop report, Noam Unger and Frederick Barton explore ways to rebalance American statecraft by strengthening civilian stabilization and development capacity within the U.S. government. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Washington, DC
The fight against global poverty has become a fight for global security. But after an awkward entrance into the 21st century, America must redefine its role in the world, including its relations with developing countries. Colin Bradford offered a public memo to the president-elect with recommendations how to modernize U.S. aid efforts and address the global development challenges of the new century effectively and with accountability. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Colin I. Bradford and Noam Unger, December 10, 2008, The Brookings Institution
America cannot afford to retreat from the fight against global poverty in a world where remote challenges can rapidly metastasize into global threats. Instead the United States must demonstrate renewed leadership and showcase its national spirit by investing wisely through more effective global development cooperation. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
October 10, 2008, The Brookings Institution
As President-Elect Obama prepares to lead the United States, what are the top global economic challenges facing the new president and his advisors and how should the new administration address them? A new report by Brookings global economic and development experts ranks the top 10 issues and details specific ideas for how to tackle the toughest challenges. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Amanda Glassman, Patricia Hernández and Dorota A. Raciborska, September 23, 2008, Project HOPE - Health Affairs
Data on health system financing and spending, together with information on the disease prevalence and cost-effectiveness of interventions, constitute essential input into health policy and is particularly critical in developing countries. Brookings Nonresident Fellow Amanda Glassman, along with fellow health specialists Dorota A. Raciborska and Patricia Hernández, offers a history of health spending measurement, describes alternative sources of data, and recommends improving international collaboration and advocacy with the private sector for the way forward. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lael Brainard and Noam Unger, September 11, 2008, The Brookings Institution
On the seventh anniversary of September 11, Lael Brainard and Noam Unger examine how the global development agenda has changed and how the U.S. can take critical steps to lead on efforts to reduce global poverty. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lael Brainard and Nigel Purvis, August 15, 2008, The Brookings Institution
For years, global poverty eradication and climate change mitigation have been two prominent but separate struggles yet in order to solve both challenges, policymakers will need to consider linked issues across both fields and understand how solutions for one might affect the other. In a new paper for the 2008 Brookings Blum Roundtable, Lael Brainard and Nigel Purvis examine the issues facing climate change and global development and offer recommendations for how to address the urgency of both policy imperatives. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Homi Kharas, August 04, 2008, Economist.com
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
BOOK
Lael Brainard and Derek Chollet, August 01, 2008
An unprecedented explosion of development players heralds a new era of global action on poverty. Global Development 2.0 celebrates this transformative trend within international aid and offers lessons to ensure that this wave of generosity yields lasting and widespread improvements to the lives and prospects of the world’s poorest. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Homi Kharas, July 31, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Aid volatility, caused by various reasons including shifts in the donor’s economic and political landscape, can negatively affect development growth. Homi Kharas measures the cost of aid volatility using a financial metric, which if used by policymakers, can create a better system of aid flows and effective development. At times, recipient countries can incur negative income shocks, and Kharas calculates that in recent years about 16 billion USD in development assistance has been lost to aid volatility. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lael Brainard and Noam Unger, June 16, 2008, Los Angeles Times
Lael Brainard and Noam Unger discuss how the global food crisis showcases America’s limited current capability to respond effectively to global development challenges, and argue that the U.S. must modernize its foreign aid system in order to effectively offer solutions to poverty and lead internationally. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lael Brainard, April 23, 2008, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
As the world faces security threats from impoverished states, the global community searches for solutions to poverty. Lael Brainard offers Congress recommendations for modernizing the U.S. aid infrastructure.
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Lael Brainard and Vinca LaFleur, February 26, 2008, The Brookings Institution
The entry of passionate, media-savvy advocates, “megaphilanthropists,” social entrepreneurs and super-foundations has heightened awareness of the struggles facing the world’s poorest. Outpourings of financial resources, on-the-ground assistance, and a commitment to finding creative solutions to disease, hunger, and education hold out hopes for a new era in the quest for global development. The fourth annual Brookings Blum Roundtable, convened in August 2007, evaluated both the immense potential of these new players and the challenges they face in achieving sustained and effective solutions to poverty and fundamental insecurity. Read More