Development Assistance and Governance Initiative Media Mentions

If the resource-rich African economies are hit hard, that poses a big challenge for the global poverty trajectory.

If you think that in 2030 there will be a number of fragile states in the world, it’s difficult to believe there will be zero poverty.

While economic growth is an integral part of poverty alleviation, it must be 'broad-based and inclusive.'

Wealthy nations spend 20 times more on farm subsidies than the $12 billion they allocate to food aid and support for poor farmers annually.

If economic growth of the developing world over the last 15 years was an anomaly, was a blip, then we're in trouble. If instead it's a new normal then we've got a good chance of getting close to this goal [to eradicate extreme poverty.]

There’s always been a credibility problem around global poverty numbers and it’s not clear that things are going to get better in the foreseeable future.

You have to assume that some core portion of those votes [against OPIC's reauthorization] were members of Congress who always vote against foreign aid. What strikes me is that the opposition that we’ve seen over the last two years against Ex-Im has not translated into opposition against OPIC.

La impopularidad de Dilma no es un motivo legítimo para pedir su destitución.

You have more and more middle-income countries now. They are larger economies, but the channels from which they can borrow have gone down. So these countries are stuck.

OPIC should push further in the direction of venture capital investments, where some degree of failure is acceptable and even necessary to ensure an institution is operating at the cutting edge of where a market can and should be going.