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Tony Blair: Supporting Good Leaders Can Help Make this “Africa’s Century”
Supporting good leaders in Africa is crucial to development success and can help make the continent the driving economic force of the 21st century, Tony Blair said in a speech at a CGD event.

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AMC Delivers Vaccines!
Five years after CGD published Making Markets for Vaccines, a blueprint for using an Advance Market Commitment to boost vaccine development, children are getting life-saving jabs made possible by a pilot AMC. Amanda Glassman tells the story.Photo: GAVI/10/German Miranda

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What’s Hot What’s Not in Global Development for 2011
As 2010 draws to a close, Sarah Jane Staats offers her second annual take on what’s hot and what’s not for global development in the coming year. In a Wonkcast, senior fellow Charles Kenny declares the aughts the best decade ever (seriously).

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The 2000s Were the Best Decade Ever? Development Optimist Charles Kenny

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Views From the Center Mapping Development Trends in Google N-Grams - Dec 21 Climate: Is a Big Technology Push Really Enough? - Dec 20 What’s Hot and What’s Not in Global Development for 2011 - Dec 20 2011 “Win-a-Trip” with Nick Kristof Contest Announced; CGD to Help with Vetting - Dec 20 More Posts		Global Health Policy The QDDR on USAID and the GHI: A Bridge to Nowhere? - Dec 22 Staff Consultation Draft Report on the Future of UNFPA – Comments and Feedback Requested - Dec 15 Who Lives? Who Decides? Examining the “How” of Health Care Rationing - Dec 15 Where Is the U.S. on Global Tobacco? - Dec 15 More Posts
Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance The Grades Are In, But Points Off for Timeliness - Dec 22 The QDDR on USAID and the GHI: A Bridge to Nowhere? - Dec 22 U.S. Development Initiatives: Where in the World Are They? - Dec 21 The QDDR: Whew, It’s Done (Or Is It?) - Dec 16 More Posts		Microfinance Open Book Revised Chapter 3 - Dec 21 Recalibrating Microfinance: A Six-Point Program - Dec 21 Speaking of Bubbles in Uncollateralized Financial Instruments… - Dec 17 Weekly Tweets for 2010-12-17 - Dec 17 More Posts

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Director of Global Health Policy and Research Fellow

Amanda Glassman is the director of Global Health Policy and a research fellow at the Center for Global Development. She has 20 years of experience working on health and social protection policy and programs in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Before joining CGD, Glassman was principal technical lead for health at the Inter-American Development Bank.

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