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Blog Post
March 10, 2020
As global health and international finance organizations respond to the evolving COVID-19 outbreak, it is time to create stronger incentives for pandemic preparedness in low- and middle-income countries. Together with colleagues from the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the Center for Strategic and I...
Blog Post
March 09, 2020
As the international community grapples with COVID-19 and the extent to which countries should fund outbreak preparedness, governments also continue to face day-to-day healthcare funding decisions, including for cancer treatments. As policymakers increasingly take cancer seriously, and allocate a gr...
Blog Post
March 06, 2020
As the global education world increasingly doubles down on efforts to address the global learning crisis, it is not clear that there are sufficient efforts going into keeping girls safe at school. We think it’s important to keep sounding the alarm: it is outrageous and unacceptable that millions of ...
Blog Post
March 05, 2020
I’m not convinced that the IFC will manage to deliver on all of the promises it is making in order to receive the funds. And I think that congressional concerns with the IFC’s use of aid in an attempt to meet lending targets are right. So, reform should come alongside resources.
Blog Post
March 04, 2020
Yesterday the World Bank announced $12 billion in financing available to member countries to respond to the health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak. There is not much information yet in the public domain on the sources and planned uses for this money, but five questions – each with addi...