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Reuters/Jennifer Szymaszek - Mexican Indian coffee-picker collects beans near Tuzamapa. Juarez earns about $2 per day for the work.

Save to My Portfolio Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: Social Policy, Informality and Economic Growth in Mexico

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Washington, DC

The Wolfensohn Center for Development will host a discussion with Santiago Levy, nonresident senior fellow and former deputy minister of finance of Mexico. Along with a panel of leading experts, Levy will discuss his new book, which recommends that in order to help bring Mexico’s poor out of poverty the country’s social programs should be improved to increase productivity, workers’ wages, and overall economic growth. Read More

Latin America Growth and Development, Mexico, Latin America, Economic Development, Developing Countries

SPOTLIGHT: Foreign Aid


Reuters/Luc Gnago - Bill Guyton, President of the World Cocoa Foundation, talks with a farmer in the village of Monga in eastern Ivory coast.

Save to My Portfolio The New Philanthropy and Development Aid

Raj M. Desai and Homi Kharas, April 24, 2008

While the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings made recent headlines, the Global Philanthropy Forum, gathering top private aid donors, fell in the shadows. These private aid donors will likely give more aid to the world’s poor this year than the institutions that convened the Spring Meetings. Raj Desai and Homi Kharas compare these two events and discuss how private aid can help to relieve global poverty. Read More

Foreign Aid, Global Governance, International Monetary Fund, Global Food Crisis, Development

Spotlight: Development Assistance


Reuters/Zohra Bensemra - Boys stand at the door-step of their house in Nairobi's Korogocho slum.

Save to My Portfolio Short Term Fixes for Development Assistance

Homi Kharas and Abdul Malik, April 10, 2008

Poor planning and execution of projects, unachievable goals and a lack of accountability resulting in corruption are a handful of reasons why donors’ development assistance is failing to end poverty. Homi Kharas outlines four short term measures to improve the quality of aid by drawing attention to the growing unmanageable aid delivery system with multiple donors, fragmented projects and divided priorities. Read More

International Monetary Fund, Global Governance, Development, Developing Countries, Multilateral Development Banks

Spotlight: Global Governance


Reuters/Hyungwon Kang - A delegate looks for his seat at the G24 ministers' International Monetary Affairs and Development meeting, at IMF headquarters in Washington.

Save to My Portfolio Experts Critique Proposal for IMF Quota Reform

Johannes F. Linn, Ralph C. Bryant and Colin I. Bradford, April 09, 2008

IMF governance reform is critical to adequately represent the rapidly growing emerging market economies and protect lower-income developing countries. Brookings experts raise concern over the Fund’s reform proposals and suggest ways to strengthen the legitimacy of the international financial institution. Read More

Global Governance, International Monetary Fund, Global Economics, Multilateral Development Banks

U.S.-Middle East Relations


Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush and Saudi Arabia's Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz greet people outside of Al Murabba Palace in Riyadh.

Save to My Portfolio Boosting Smart Power: The Role of the United States in the Middle East

Navtej Dhillon, February 22, 2008

While the United States concentrates its Middle Eastern policy efforts on democracy and the war on terrorism, 60% of the region’s population is facing a crisis of their own – a fight for decent education, employment and housing. Brookings Fellow Navtej Dhillon says that the United States and the international community must refocus their efforts on building a future for the Middle Eastern majority; from using hard power to boosting smart power. View related video. Read More

Middle East, Middle East Democracy and Development, Saudi Arabia, U.S. Politics, Foreign Policy

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