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Blog Post
October 27, 2022
The kind of investment sustainability that’s getting the most love at the moment is environmental sustainability: we want our buildings, machines, and infrastructure to be low carbon (as we should). But financial sustainability still matters, too: if they are to be a success, solar power plants and ...
Blog Post
October 26, 2022
In the face of multiple crises—among them the COVID-19 pandemic, a rise in global food prices, and climate change-induced natural disasters—social protection systems have never been more vital. Through programs that provide cash, food or other in-kind support; income through public works programs; o...
Blog Post
October 24, 2022
Low- and middle-income countries face severe health budget constraints while also dealing with complex and evolving disease burdens. Ministries of health need cost information to allocate resources efficiently. We've developed a step-by-step guide to a method known as “time-driven activity-based cos...
Blog Post
October 21, 2022
When Liz Truss was elected leader of the Tory party, and thus slid into the empty role of Prime Minister, some friends I have a group chat with took bets on how long she’d last. Two of us, myself included, said she’d be out by December (though the rest all picked dates well before the expected gener...
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October 19, 2022
Around the world, the state of refugee integration policy is dire. Fortunately, this is changing. Here are three broad lessons I personally take from the new, rigorous evidence presented at the symposium on refugee integration, at the University of California Davis Global Migration Center.