How to pronounce“cdd”in English

every year uh on CDD programs in poor countries and um the goal of CDD

collaboration between the GSB and the Freeman Spogli Institute in between CDDRL.

He also leads the program on Arab reform based at CDDRL where he is also a senior fellow.

stoner to welcome this year's program into CDDRL and to John for going to do this collaboration that

approach so just to get into a little more of the detail about CDD this is a quote from a world Bank uh publication uh from you know a few years back that

column is the average in the control group they didn't get the CDD intervention this is the treatment effect uh you know with significance

popular uh way of doing so in terms of money spent and effort is through what's called community-driven development uh or CDD billions of dollars are spent

experiment so in a lot of the analysis I'll be comparing the The Villages that received the CDD interv mention to a control group that didn't and uh a

English dialect that's the lingua Franco of of sier Leone the uh project had three components that are very typical of CDD projects uh elsewhere the first

wrap up um you know at the end of the day setting up new organizations through CDD all this kind of institutional reform may not uh lead to institutional

This program is a collaboration between the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the center for Democracy Development and the Rule of Law cddrl.

I'd also like to recognize Dede Kuo, Center Fellow at cddrl, for her contributions to this program and for advancing research on democracy and governance.

And also thank you to Lisa and the team here at the GSB and our team at cddrl.

We have one faculty member who spends time as a senior fellow, Austin CDDRL.

We're really in your debt for walking across the street with some frequency and becoming a part of CDDRL and launching this program and

I'm going to speak to the Corporation Society Initiative for a minute, and then I'm going to introduce Catherine Stoner who's going to talk about CDDRL and

And as some of you will know, we do have a wonderful marriage between the GSV and CDDRL.

the Mosbacher, Senior Fellow in global democracy at FSI and my predecessor as the Mosbacher, Director of CDDRL.

But anyway, Larry then said, got to start a program at CDDRL.

And so we did this with a bunch of law schools, policy schools, business schools, and CDDR and