The Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development conducts country advising projects for a number of governments. Our senior advisers have extensive experience in collaborating with government officials, business leaders, and non-governmental organizations on development projects.
by region:
- Africa
- Ghana: Agenda for Growth
- Sao Tome and Principe Advisory Project on Sustainable Development Strategies
- East Asia
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- South Asia
Sao Tome and Principe Advisory Project on Sustainable Development Strategies
The Earth Institute's advisory project in Sao Tome and Principe began in mid-2003, to help that country escape the "resource curse" afflicting many low-income oil exporters. The project involves a large number of pro-bono advisors, convened by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, working in a range of areas as documented on the project website. Advisors' travel expenses are paid through a grant from the Open Society Institute. Among the most important areas of involvement have been assistance with the development of Oil Revenue Management Law, to establish an institutional framework for transparency and accountability in public expenditure over time; the design and execution of a National Forum, through which to inform citizens about the country's oil revenues and solicit their views on how they might be spent; and the formulation of a Plan of Action for sustainable economic development, through improvements in health, education, agriculture, physical infrastructure, electrification, telecommunications, and fisheries.
East Asia Program (EAP) - CGSD
Economic Growth in China Project
The Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development (CGSD) has been supporting the current President of the Dominican Republic Leonel Fernandez and his economic team since 2002 in their efforts to rekindle the rapid economic growth experienced during the late 1990s. In 2003, the Center (Lenora Suki and Joaquin Vial) carried out an evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals for the think tank established by President Fernandez, the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development, which culminated in a conference in October 2003 focused on facing development challenges over the next decade in the Dominican Republic. In 2003 and 2004, Lenora Suki conducted research on strengthening diaspora participation and improving development outcomes on both sides of the transnational community through trade and investment development ties and the creation of new markets. Since late 2004, CGSD has been working with the Millennium Project Secretariat to assist the government in identifying the necessary investments to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The CGSD team consists of Lenora Suki, Associate Director of the Earth Institute, and two Dominican postgraduate students, Letty Gutiérrez (Columbia University) and Maria Davalos (Fordham University). These individuals worked closely with various ministries and agencies of the Dominican Government under the guidance of the Millennium Project Policy Advisors to help define interventions and investment needs for the Dominican Republic’s main challenges in meeting the Millennium Development Goals in education, health and HIV/AIDS, hunger and malnutrition, gender inequality and women’s empowerment, environment and infrastructure.