Six Lessons for Disaster Relief in Haiti

January 26, 2010

Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Aid Effectiveness, Inequality, Poverty Tags: Disaster Relief, John Simon, Military Aid

I’m joined this week by John Simon, a visiting fellow here at the Center for Global Development. Before coming to the Center, John served in a range of influential positions, from U.S. Ambassador to the African Union to Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. During the George W. Bush administration, he was a member of the National Security Council, serving as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Relief, Stabilization, and Development.

That last role placed him at the center of the American response to natural disasters including the 2005 South Asia earthquake and Hurricane Stan. On the Wonkcast, he shares some of the lessons he learned through those experiences, expanding on a blog post he wrote last week (a post I highly recommend reading!).
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Fragile States: Development in the World’s Basket Cases

January 19, 2010

Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Fragile States, Global Development Tags: Foreign Aid, Fragile States, Vijaya Ramachandran

My guest this week is Vijaya Ramachandran, a senior fellow here at the Center for Global Development. Vij directs the Center’s research on fragile states—countries where, often due to recent or ongoing conflict, the basic functions of government are weak or nonexistent. These states present special challenges to aid donors and practitioners, both in planning how to give aid effectively and in delivering it. Read More…

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Birdsall on Clinton, Elevating Development, Taking Stock in 2010

January 11, 2010

Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Aid Effectiveness, Global Development, Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Tags: Foreign Aid, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Birdsall, Poverty, Secretary of State, USAID

I’m joined this week by Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development. Nancy introduced Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when Clinton came to speak to CGD last week. On the Wonkcast, she shares her impressions of Clinton’s speech and places it in the broader context of U.S. development policy reform—including two ongoing assessments, the White House Presidential Study Directive or PSD and the State Department’s first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review or QDDR.

In the second half of the interview, Nancy reviews the past year in development and offers a policy wish for 2010.
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Bases, Bullets, and Ballots: U.S. Military Aid and Conflict in Colombia

January 5, 2010

Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Global Development, Latin America, Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Tags: Colombia, Foreign Aid, Military Aid, Oeindrila Dube, Paramilitaries, Political Violence, Regions

My guest this week is Oeindrila Dube, a postdoctoral fellow here at the Center for Global Development and an assistant professor of politics and economics at New York University. She is the author, along with Suresh Naidu, of a new paper that examines the relationships between U.S. military aid to Colombia and paramilitary violence and electoral participation in that country. Her paper reaches the unsettling conclusion that U.S. military assistance dollars may in fact be responsible for raising the levels of political violence.
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