Center for Global Development

About: Center for Global Development is a nonprofit organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Poverty & Population. The organization has 1472 authors who have published 3891 publications receiving 162325 citations.

Understanding Conflict and Violence: Theoretical and Interdisciplinary Approaches

Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. Dimensions 3. Structural Violence 4. Functions 5. Innate 6. Learnt 7. Grievance 8. Mobilisation 9. Crises 10. Hegemony

Small Loans, Big Claims

Abstract: chance to strengthen the WTO's legitimacy. Northern governments have billed it as a "development round," but poor nations have little cause for optimism. Rich countries are dragging their feet over phasing out the Multifibre Agreement, an onerous system of discriminatory quotas targeted at textiles and garments in developing countries. And the 2002 U.S. farm bill, with its $80 billion increase in subsidies over 10 years, has effectively ended negotiations before they even started. Esty does not address these issues and is much stronger on identifying problems than solutions. He calls for "a more virtual WTO that

The Global War on Terror and U.S. Development Assistance: USAID allocation by country, 1998-2005

Abstract: The launch of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) soon after September 11, 2001 has been predicted to fundamentally alter U.S. foreign aid programs. In particular, there is a common expectation that development assistance will be used to support strategic allies in the GWOT, perhaps at the expense of anti-poverty programs. In this paper we assess changes in country allocation by USAID over 1998-2001 versus 2002-05. In addition to standard aid allocation variables, we add several proxies for the GWOT, including the presence of foreign terrorist groups, sharing a border with a state sponsor of terrorism, troop contribution in Iraq, and relative share of Muslim population. We find that any major changes in aid allocation related to the GWOT appear to be affecting only a handful of critical countries, namely, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, and the Palestinian Territories. The extra resources to these countries also seem to be coming from overall increases in the bilateral aid envelope, combined with declines in aid to Israel, Egypt, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. We do not find that any of our GWOT proxies (or their interactions) are significantly correlated with changes in country allocation of aid flows to the rest of the world, including to sub-Saharan African countries. Concerns that there is a large and systematic diversion of U.S. foreign aid from fighting poverty to fighting the GWOT do not so far appear to have been realized.