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August 11, 2022
Ahead of COP27, which will take place in Egypt in November 2022, CGD hosted an event that aimed to identify the challenges of mobilizing private finance for climate action in Africa as well as the opportunities and policies needed to overcome them. From the rich discussions, we have summarized a ran...
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June 28, 2022
CGD has set up a working group to examine different ways to purchase antimicrobials in LMICs in order to identify actionable policies to improve access and stewardship for key products and increase funding for research into new ones. We are launching today the Working Group’s first working paper.
Blog Post
May 31, 2022
How have the ways in which political parties think about and frame global challenges to the electorate changed over the last three decades, as both the challenges and the political climate have shifted? One way to answer this question is to look at their election manifestos. Though the way in which ...
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May 26, 2022
Yesterday at the annual World Health Assembly in Geneva, member states passed a resolution tabled by the Argentina, Peru, and the UK that aims to strengthen clinical trials to improve public health. As COVID-19 has made abundantly clear, the evidence generated by high-quality clinical trials is esse...
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May 09, 2022
Since the start of the 20th century, global average life expectancy has risen from 32 to 72 years. The introduction of antimicrobials—such as antibiotics—to treat infections, combined with vaccines and improved infection control, helped significantly reduce the risks from infectious diseases, which ...