Center for Global Development
The Center for Global Development ( CGD ) is an American think tank based in Washington, DC The central interest of the CGD is global development.
The center was founded in 2001 by Edward W. Scott, C. Fred Bergsten , and Nancy Birdsall. Birdsall, who was previously the vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank , became the first president of the CGD. Lawrence Summers was unanimously elected to succeed Edward Scott, Jr. in March 2014.
Foreign Policy magazine ranks CGD as one of the most important think tanks in the USA. CGD sees its task in "working towards political change in the USA and other rich countries through thorough research and active engagement with political decision-makers in order to reduce global poverty and inequality."
The CGD is known for debt relief programs, particularly in Nigeria and Liberia . A proposal by CGD Vice President Todd Moss resulted in the Paris Club Nigeria canceling 60% of its $ 31 billion debt. Steve Radelet, former Senior Fellow at the CGD, advised Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on debt relief and development aid coordination.
The CGD also developed a program called Advance Market Commitments to encourage the development of vaccines for specific diseases. The approach is supported by the G7 , and five countries and the Gates Foundation provided US $ 1.5 billion to develop a vaccine against pneumonia.
Since 2003 the CGD has published the Commitment to Development Index together with the journal Foreign Policy . The annual index rates rich countries according to how their development, trade, migration, investment, environmental, security and research policies affect international development.
The Center for Global Development in Europe was founded in October 2011 and aims to enter into dialogue with politicians, academics and scientists in Europe and to learn from them.
In November 2013 the CDG moved into a new headquarters, which has a conference center with 170 seats, a boardroom with 60 seats and a multimedia studio.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Lawrence Summers to Become Board Chair of the Center for Global Development. Center for Global Development, accessed February 12, 2014 .
- ^ The Think Tank Index. Foreign Policy, archived from the original on January 19, 2009 ; accessed on December 31, 2011 .
- ↑ About CGD. Cgdev.org, accessed December 31, 2011 .