A new era for CGD! 🌍🌟

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Rachel Glennerster Rachel Glennerster will be the new President of CGD!

Building on the legacies of Nancy M. Birdsall and Masood Ahmed, Rachel is set to propel CGD forward with her rigorous approach to development economics,…

TOMORROW: Melinda Bohannon, Danny Sriskandarajah, & Charles Kenny will discuss two scenarios—a reasonable best- and worst-case version of the world in 2050s, along with the politics, economics, & prospects for long-term global development.

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What a legend. So cool.

Maybe people ought to try living for a day without the technologies invented since they were born. (Would be an exciting challenge for me: the heart stent was patented in 1971).

Having a Pumpkin & Pepita loaf delivered to you on command by a person responding to the computer in your pocket is a luxury that has been available to like ~.00001% of humans to ever exist.

This is a miracle of human ingenuity and still we complain that it costs money.

Turbocharged World Bank to deliver for people and planet goes putt-putt-pffft.

Karen Mathiasen on the underwhelming results of the Spring Meetings.

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The Home Office just told an Immigration Judge that a traumatised Afghan 13-yr-old, living by himself in a Middle East country, doesn’t need to come to the UK to be reunited with what’s left of his family, because he can enjoy family life with them via WhatsApp

Ten days left to apply -->

Pandemic Accord talks are likely to fail today. Options include ongoing ministerial talks at WHA. More likely is a special WHA Session in 6 months or postponement to WHA 2024. We should know today. Why can’t leaders see how vital a treaty is to our security & basic fairness?

Good thread on climate doomsterism

'America's 9M open jobs are costing the US economy more than half a $ trillion in economic output per year' and because more Americans are retiring than entering the market '100% of labor force growth is now coming from immigrants.'

Pleased to have co-signed.

Roles on merit, not on P5 / nationality.

It's not just the U.S. The rich world is trying to keep asylum seekers out wapo.st/4ad2GBi

New data indicates that most Chinese migrants are coming because of a (1) slowing economy or (2) political repression.

At the very least, the U.S. should better enable Chinese dissidents to access our refugee system.

Beautiful isochronic world #map compares travel time from London 1914 vs 2016. An internet cartography classic by Rome2Rio at this stage.

Remember food trucks?

Extremely excited to launch our new Center for Global Development / Refugees International research looking into how multilateral development banks support improved outcomes for economic migrants and refugees.

✍️ Blog (cgdev.org/blog/improving…) + Paper 👇

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Japan doubling its intake of skilled workers to 160,000/year. That's a country a little more than one-third our size. Note the H-1B is still 85,000.