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2017
12:30—2:00 PM
July 31, 2017
The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic broke out and affected thousands of people at a time when there were no medicines approved to treat or prevent Ebola. Poor infrastructure, capacity gaps, widespread mistrust, and disagreements over the design and ethical nature of any clinical trials complicated efforts ...
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2015
9:30—11:30 AM
January 05, 2015
The Center for Global Development is pleased to host a discussion on Liberia after Ebola, featuring Senator Jeff Flake and Liberian Minster of Public Works, Gyude Moore.
The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa continues to have an extraordinary human cost. But as the outbreak in Liberia appears ...
CGD in the News
October 27, 2014
Mead Over: I think that so far, I have not noticed that the funding itself is constrained. I think the constraint has been the sheer difficulty of building out the Ebola treatment centers, and particularly staffing them.
What I still don't understand is whether the international community has a...
CGD in the News
October 23, 2014
“The epidemic is moving faster than we economists can work,” said a blog last week by World Bank senior economist David Evans and Center for Global Development senior fellow Mead Over.
“The latest information suggests that even the World Bank’s ‘High Ebola’ scena...
CGD in the News
October 03, 2014
Mead Over, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, told ABC News that since Nigeria has succeeded in containing the outbreak, he expects the United States’ stronger public health system to quickly contain the disease in Dallas or if any other infected traveler arrives elsewhere.
A...
CGD in the News
September 22, 2014
Mead Over: “Well, the recent history of these economies has been quite optimistic story. Liberia has been growing at 6 percent a year and Sierra Leone at more than 11 percent a year. That’s in comparison, for example, to the United States, which is growing at only about 2 percent. So the...
CGD in the News
September 04, 2014
Mead Over of the Center for Global Development said food price inflation and unemployment will not hit everyone the same way.
For example, in rural areas, subsistence farmers grow their own foods for home consumption and are largely protected from the economic fallout. Over says traders will ...