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Jun
30
4:00—5:30 PM
June 25, 2010
The Center for Global Development presents a discussion on
Liberia: Life After Debt
Featuring
Augustine Ngafuan
Minister of Finance, Liberia
Amara Konneh
Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs, Liberia
John Lipsky
First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Mode...
January 15, 2010
Edward W. Scott Jr., the founding chairman of the Board of the Center for Global Development, recently visited Liberia together with members of his family and a group that included CGD board member Belinda Stronach. It was Scott’s first visit but far from his first involvement with Liberia. In 2006,...
Mar
4
3:30—5:00 PM
Center for Global Development, 1800 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC
February 24, 2009
Abstract: Can brief, foreign-funded efforts to build local institutions have positive effects on local patterns of governance, cooperation, and wellbeing? Prior research suggests that such small-scale, externally-driven interventions are unlikely to substantially alter patterns of social interaction...
Aug
26
6:30—8:30 PM
Center for Global Development, 1800 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC
August 14, 2008
Please join us on Tuesday, August 26th as we welcome Liberian novelist Elma Shaw to discuss her new book, Redemption Road.
About Redemption Road: Set in Monrovia during the administration of Liberia's former president, Charles Taylor, Elma Shaw's riveting debut is a story of recovery, atonement,...
Apr
11
9:00—10:30 AM
Jurys Washington Hotel, Doyle A, 1500 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
April 03, 2008
The inauguration of the administration of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in January 2006 marked an end to twenty-five years of misrule and civil conflict which had left the country in ruins. The Sirleaf administration has set the country on a new course, placing transparency, accountability, good governance,...
ESSAYS
February 19, 2008
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who will host President Bush on Thursday in the final stop of his five-country Africa tour, has news that may surprise some people: despite the problems in some African countries, things are clearly improving in much of the continent. In a new CGD essay co-a...