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Blog Post
April 12, 2018
This year’s IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings are just around the corner. In a rapidly changing development landscape, this year’s events at the Center for Global Development will focus on innovative and proactive approaches to addressing tomorrow’s development challenges today. We in...
Blog Post
January 23, 2018
As world leaders gather to kick off the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, CGD’s experts weigh in to shed some light on the ongoing debates, with innovative evidence-based solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges, and also discuss what’s not ...
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November 25, 2014
On World AIDS Day in 2003, WHO and UNAIDS launched a campaign called the “3 by 5 initiative,” with the objective to “treat three million people with HIV by 2005.” At that time, AIDS treatment was still prohibitively expensive for poor countries, where only a few thousand peop...
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March 28, 2014
I recently proposed that any assessment of a country’s statistical capacity be structured around the functions of government, such as those offered by the UN statistical office here. When this list is fully expanded, it includes all of the data that advanced countries like...