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June 13, 2023
This Thursday, the Center for Global Development is hosting a half-day event—Get the Lead Out—to shine a much-needed spotlight on the far-reaching social and economic consequences of lead poisoning. Lead is an insidious toxin. In most cases, it has no overt, easily detectable symptoms when ingested—...
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February 06, 2023
Today, we publicly launch an independent assessment which offers an overview of the global lead poisoning crisis; takes stock of current initiatives within G7 partners and international organisations to reduce lead poisoning globally; and identifies promising opportunities to make a difference. Here...
Blog Post
April 20, 2022
Recently, the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) published the annual statistics summarizing how much foreign aid its 30 member states, including Austria, provided in 2021, loudly trumpeting the all time high levels of ODA achieved. It’s a good time to reflect on the uncomfortable tension...
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October 29, 2021
The UK government has announced that it anticipates a return to spending 0.7 percent of gross national income (GNI) on official development assistance (ODA) in three years’ time. It is confident enough in this that the just-published Spending Review, which sets departmental budgets up to the 2024/25...
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March 03, 2017
This week, representatives from 50-plus countries gathered in Brussels for the “She Decides” conference, raising about $190 million in pledges to support women’s reproductive and sexual health and rights around the world. This is great news, but the relatively s...