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CGD in the News
December 02, 2014
"Of the 35 million people who are currently infected with HIV, as mentioned in your previous segment, the vast majority of those live in extremely poor countries where the per capita income is less than $1,000."
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"Typically the individual with AIDS will have to have to spend gre...
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 ...
CGD in the News
May 09, 2014
Save the Children, the aid organization founded in 1919, wanted to come up with a public service spot to promote its cause. A staffer lamented, "Moms and kids dying is just not a sexy issue."
And from those words a sexy ad was born.
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Yes, it is weird. "Weird, almost obscene,&quo...
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 ...
January 15, 2010
Last week’s presidential candidate forum on national service highlighted the theme of volunteerism common to the campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama. Both promised to make service a priority and emphasized the value of expanding domestic and international service opportunities. CGD senior fell...