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The Center for Global Development (CGD) is a U.S. nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C. that focuses on international development. It was founded in November 2001 by former senior U.S. official Edward W. Scott, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, C. Fred Bergsten, and Nancy Birdsall. Birdsall, the former Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank and former Director of the Policy Research Department at the World Bank, became the Center's first President. Lawrence Summers was unanimously elected in March 2014 by the CGD Board of Directors to succeed founding Board Chair Edward Scott, Jr., on May 1, 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lawrence Summers to Become Board Chair of the Center for Global Development )〕 CGD was ranked the fourth most prominent think tank in the international development sphere by University of Pennsylvania's "2013 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Global Go To Think Tank Index Report )〕 Recently, Foreign Policy Magazine's Think-Tank Index listed CGD as one of the top 15 overall think-tanks in the USA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Coming Soon )〕 CGD's stated mission is "to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the United States and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About CGD )〕 The Center considers itself to be a "think and do" tank, with an emphasis on producing research that is channeled into practical policy proposals. CGD is well known for leading debt-relief programs, specifically in Nigeria and Liberia. CGD Vice President Todd Moss first proposed the Nigerian debt buy-back, which resulted in the Paris Club of rich nations forgiving 60% of $31 billion of debt.〔“Clean Slate”, ''The Economist'', October 2005〕 Former CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet advised Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and her senior advisors on debt relief and aid coordination. CGD is also known for creating the program called advance market commitments to encourage vaccine development for specific diseases. The G7 endorsed the approach and the Gates Foundation and five countries gave $1.5 billion to create a vaccine against strains of pneumonia.〔("Advanced Market Commitments: Saving Lives With Affordable Vaccines" ), Gates Foundation, accessed July 26, 2010〕 In cooperation with ''Foreign Policy'', CGD has published the Commitment to Development Index since 2003. The annual index ranks countries based on how their foreign aid, trade, migration, investment, environment, security and technology policies encourage global development.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Commitment to Development Index )〕 The Center for Global Development in Europe was established in October 2011 with the aim of engaging with and learning from policymakers, academics, and researchers in Europe, and bringing the CGD blend of evidence-led, high-quality research and engagement to European policymaking and engagement about development. ("CGD in Europe" ) research initiatives include ("Europe Beyond Aid" ), (Development Impact Bonds ), and (Illicit Financial Flows ). In November 2013, CGD purchased a (new headquarters ) that includes a 170-seat state-of-the-art conference center, a 60-seat boardroom/ideas lab, and a multimedia studio. ==Research== CGD conducts research within a range of topics that impact global poverty and people of the developing world. Topics include aid effectiveness, education, globalization and global health, as well as the impact of trade and migration on development. The Center is well known for its research on aid effectiveness. CGD President Nancy Birdsall recently developed Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid, an initiative aimed to improve aid effectiveness by focusing foreign aid on outcomes, not inputs. In 2008, CGD produced a compilation of essays edited by Nancy Birdsall called "The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President". These essays give policy recommendations to solve international problems, such as global health, foreign aid policy, migration, global warming and foreign direct investment. CGD recently published a report on the dangers of drug resistance in “The Race against Drug Resistance: When Medicines Fail”, which the Global Health team launched on June 14, 2010. In addition to print publications,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=References )〕 CGD maintains several blogs, including (Views From the Center ) and the (Global Health Policy blog ). Other research topics listed on their website include capital flows/financial crises, debt relief, environmental issues, economic growth, governance/democracy, international financial institutions, finance, food and agriculture, inequality, population, poverty, private investment, security and development, and data sets and resources.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of CGD Topics )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Center for Global Development」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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