62 relations: Abhijit Banerjee, Advance market commitments, Aid effectiveness, Air pollution, Andrew Mitchell, Antoinette Sayeh, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Branko Milanović, Capital (economics), Chris Blattman, Commitment to Development Index, Database, Dean Karlan, Debt relief, Dick Sabot, Economic inequality, Edward W. Scott, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Environmental issue, Financial crisis, Foreign Policy, Francis Fukuyama, Global health, Globalization, Goodluck Jonathan, Governance, Group of Seven, Hillary Clinton, Human migration, Inter-American Development Bank, International development, International financial institutions, Joyce Banda, Kemal Derviş, Kenneth Rogoff, Lant Pritchett, Lawrence Summers, Liberia, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Martin Ravallion, Michael Clemens, Michael Kremer, Nancy Birdsall, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, Nigeria, Nora Lustig, Norway, Paris Club, Paul Gertler, ..., Paul Romer, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Pneumonia, Poverty, Ravi Kanbur, Sendhil Mullainathan, Think tank, United States Agency for International Development, University of Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Website, World Bank. Expand index (12 more) »
Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (Bengali: অভিজিৎ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; born 1961) is an Indian economist.
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Advance market commitments
An advance market commitment (AMC) is a binding contract, typically offered by a government or other financial entity, used to guarantee a viable market for a product once it is successfully developed.
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Aid effectiveness
Aid effectiveness is the effectiveness of development aid in achieving economic or human development (or development targets).
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Air pollution
Air pollution occurs when harmful or excessive quantities of substances including gases, particulates, and biological molecules are introduced into Earth's atmosphere.
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Andrew Mitchell
Andrew John Bower Mitchell (born 23 March 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician who was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield in 2001.
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Antoinette Sayeh
Antoinette Monsio Sayeh (born 12 July 1958 in Monrovia, Liberia) is a Liberian economist.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), also known as the Gates Foundation, is a private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates.
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Branko Milanović
Branko Milanović (Бранко Милановић; born October 24, 1953) is a Serbian-American economist.
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Capital (economics)
In economics, capital consists of an asset that can enhance one's power to perform economically useful work.
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Chris Blattman
Christopher Blattman is an economist and political scientist working on international development and policy, as well as a blogger on international economics and politics.
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Commitment to Development Index
The Commitment to Development Index (CDI), published annually by the Center for Global Development, ranks the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the five billion people living in poorer nations.
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Database
A database is an organized collection of data, stored and accessed electronically.
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Dean Karlan
Dean S. Karlan is an American development economist.
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Debt relief
Debt relief or debt cancellation is the partial or total forgiveness of debt, or the slowing or stopping of debt growth, owed by individuals, corporations, or nations.
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Dick Sabot
Richard "Dick" Sabot (February 16, 1944 – July 6, 2005) was an economist, scholar, farmer, and Internet pioneer who was co-founder of Tripod.com, one of the first and most successful dot-coms, in 1992.
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Economic inequality
Economic inequality is the difference found in various measures of economic well-being among individuals in a group, among groups in a population, or among countries.
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Edward W. Scott
Edward W. "Ed" Scott Jr. is an American businessman, philanthropist, and former senior United States government official.
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 29 October 1938) is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018.
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Environmental issue
Environmental issues are harmful effects of human activity on the biophysical environment.
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Financial crisis
A financial crisis is any of a broad variety of situations in which some financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value.
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Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy is an American news publication, founded in 1970 and focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy.
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Francis Fukuyama
Yoshihiro Francis "Frank" Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, and author.
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Global health
Global health is the health of populations in the global context; it has been defined as "the area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide".
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Globalization
Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments worldwide.
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Goodluck Jonathan
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957)Lawson Heyford,, The Source (Lagos), 11 December 2006.
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Governance
Governance is all of the processes of governing, whether undertaken by a government, a market or a network, over a social system (family, tribe, formal or informal organization, a territory or across territories) and whether through the laws, norms, power or language of an organized society.
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Group of Seven
The Group of Seven (G7) is a group consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
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Human migration
Human migration is the movement by people from one place to another with the intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily in a new location.
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Inter-American Development Bank
The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB or IDB or BID) is the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean.
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International development
International development or global development is a wide concept concerning level of development on an international scale.
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International financial institutions
An international financial institution (IFI) is a financial institution that has been established (or chartered) by more than one country, and hence are subjects of international law.
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Joyce Banda
Joyce Hilda Banda (née Mtila; born 12 April 1950) is a Malawian politician who was the President of Malawi from 7 April 2012 to 31 May 2014.
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Kemal Derviş
Kemal Derviş (born 10 January 1949) is a Turkish economist and politician, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme.
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Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Saul "Ken" Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is an American economist and chess Grandmaster.
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Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett (born 1959) is an American development economist.
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Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist, former Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank (1991–93),, Data & Research office, The World Bank, retrieved March 31, 2017, World Bank Live, The World Bank, retrieved March 31, 2017 Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, retrieved March 31, 2017 senior U.S. Treasury Department official throughout President Clinton's administration (ultimately Treasury Secretary, 1999–2001), U.S. Treasury Department, Last Updated: 11/20/2010, retrieved March 31, 2017 and former director of the National Economic Council for President Obama (2009–2010).
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Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.
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Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Liliana Rojas-Suarez is a Peruvian economist, who is currently a Senior Fellow and Director of the Latin American Initiative at the Center for Global Development.
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Martin Ravallion
Martin Ravallion (born 19 March 1952), is an Australian economist.
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Michael Clemens
Michael Andrew Clemens (born c. 1972) is an American development economist. He is a senior fellow and research manager at the Center for Global Development (CGD), a Washington D.C.-based think tank, where he leads the Migration and Development initiative and serves as CGD's Research Manager. Clemens is also a Research Fellow of, the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany, and an affiliate of the Financial Access Initiative, a research center housed at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.
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Michael Kremer
Michael Robert Kremer (born November 12, 1964) is an American development economist, who is currently the Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University.
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Nancy Birdsall
Nancy Birdsall (born February 6, 1946) is the founding president of the Center for Global Development (CGD) in Washington, DC, USA, and former executive vice-president of the Inter-American Development Bank.
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 13 June 1954) is a Nigerian, an economist and the first female Minister of Finance.
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Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, (born 22 April 1946) is a British economist and academic.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
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Nora Lustig
Nora Lustig (born January 13, 1951) is the Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics in the Department of Economics at Tulane University, the Director of the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Institute at Tulane University, and a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue.
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Norway
Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.
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Paris Club
The Paris Club (Club de Paris) is a group of officials from major creditor countries whose role is to find coordinated and sustainable solutions to the payment difficulties experienced by debtor countries.
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Paul Gertler
Paul Gertler (born March 30, 1955) is an American economist and the Li Ka Shing Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Haas School of Business and the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley.
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Paul Romer
Paul Michael Romer (born November 7, 1955) is an American economist and pioneer of endogenous growth theory.
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Peterson Institute for International Economics
The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE; Peterson Institute), until 2006 the Institute for International Economics (IIE), is a private and non-profit think tank focused on international economics, based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by C. Fred Bergsten in 1981, and is led by Adam S. Posen.
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Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.
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Poverty
Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money.
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Ravi Kanbur
Sanjiv M. Ravi Kanbur (born 28 August 1954), is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University.
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Sendhil Mullainathan
Sendhil Mullainathan (செந்தில் முல்லைநாதன்) (born c. 1973) is an Indian American Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (with Eldar Shafir).
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Think tank
A think tank, think factory or policy institute is a research institute/center and organisation that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture.
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United States Agency for International Development
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.
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University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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Website
A website is a collection of related web pages, including multimedia content, typically identified with a common domain name, and published on at least one web server.
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World Bank
The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.
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