So, I took a couple of months off the from writing the links for the first time since I started them about a decade ago, and what happens? Let’s see: Liz Truss becomes Prime Minister, and almost immediately the Queen died and gave the English around 48 hours to explore what peak English looks like (...

On this episode of Pandemic Proof, Dr. Ayoade Alakija, the World Health Organization’s Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) and co-chair of the African Union’s African Vaccine Delivery Alliance, joins Javier Guzman to discuss global cooperation during health emergencies...

​​​​​​​CGD’s Amanda Glassman and Julia Kaufman introduce this blog from prominent international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) in the development space. The piece builds on the findings and recommendations of a recent CGD working group.

UK Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, is preparing a “medium-term fiscal plan”. Might there be a solution that enables the Chancellor to respond to immediate pressures, avoids further cuts to the UK’s aid programmes, and actually improves the UK’s medium-term fiscal position?

Despite alleged “lessons learned” from the COVID-19 pandemic about the need for early containment, getting the messaging right, and a swift rollout of diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics, we have seen the same blunders yet again in the monkeypox response, highlighting the inequities in the syste...

It is surely an urgent moment for multilateral support from the IMF and World Bank. And yet, the institutions’ financial statements suggest that support is declining. Figuring out why and what to do about it should be priority one at the upcoming World Bank-IMF annual meetings.

The 2021 allocation of $650 billion of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) was heralded by many as a needed shot in the arm to the global economy. While many countries have made good use of their part of the SDR pie, the hope that advanced economies would share their excess SDRs with more vulnerable coun...