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Blog Post
May 18, 2023
Today we launched two country case studies examining policy proposals to improve antimicrobial procurement in India and Brazil (versão em português). These studies are outputs of CGD’s working group on antimicrobial procurement in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), which is developing recomme...
Blog Post
May 17, 2023
Youth unemployment is a massive problem in many African countries, where the formal sector is small and the population is still expanding rapidly. Relative to young people in other parts of the world, African youth entering the labor force are more likely to be forced to take unpaid jobs to gain exp...
Blog Post
May 17, 2023
Is Spain on track to become a bigger player within global development, and what is needed to ensure the reform has a lasting impact? In this blog we look at previous attempts at reform, assess what might be different this time, and conclude by providing suggestions on what policymakers could do to f...
Blog Post
May 16, 2023
The potential for emerging technology in Africa is vast. With a future population of 2.5 billion people, the continent presents a huge market opportunity for businesses to tap into. For Japanese companies, there is a massive middle class opportunity waiting to be exploited. However, simply building ...
Blog Post
May 15, 2023
Next week, the World Health Assembly (WHA) is considering two key resolutions, one on oxygen supply and another on emergency and critical care. Together, these resolutions represent an acknowledgement of a major lesson from the COVID pandemic: delivery of rapid care for the critically ill, including...
Blog Post
May 15, 2023
A significant portion of African borrowing over the last decade has gone toward building infrastructure, but still, infrastructure has not kept up with population growth across the continent. Africa currently trails the rest of the world on every measure of infrastructure coverage. This deficit is m...