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CGD in the News
September 15, 2014
CGD'S effort to weigh malaria interventions stirred new controversy. Malaria control didn't make it into the first two editions of Millions Saved, in 2004 and 2007, which documented triumphs from global ones like smallpox eradication to little-known efforts to combat diarrheal disease in Egy...
CGD in the News
August 13, 2014
Since the term “data revolution” was introduced, there has been a flurry of activity to define, develop, and implement an agenda to transform the collection, use, and distribution of development statistics. That makes sense. Assessing the international community’s next development ...
CGD in the News
August 07, 2014
[The CGD working paper] looks at statistics the government has beautified for the sake of international donors. For instance government vaccination rates are higher than those reported by household surveys.
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But in the long run, dodgy statistics aren’t good for anyone. They “distort...
CGD in the News
April 25, 2014
"I think everyone's starting to focus on how to get better value for money. At the Center for Global Development we've done some work specifically focused on the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria looking at what kinds of incentives their old grant agreements cre...
CGD in the News
April 03, 2014
Some observers are worried that the pendulum at USAID may be swinging too quickly in the direction of research. Casey Dunning, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Development, a think tank in Washington DC, says that the wider development community may not have the scientific expertise ...
Press Release
September 17, 2013
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria disburses more than a billion dollars a year and has likely saved millions of lives-but it could
save many more lives and avert untold suffering by re-structuring its activities to get more health for the money, according to a new report ...