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May 01, 2015
This week, Chad became the 36th poor country to benefit from the world’s collective response to the debt crises of the 1980s and 1990s. It took years to reach this point, but in the end, Chad received over one billion dollars in irrevocable debt relief under the Heavily Indebted...
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April 17, 2015
On Monday, US Secretary of State John Kerry signed an agreement with the African Union to help establish the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the African CDC will take on a role similar to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
Apr
2
2015
12:00—1:30 PM
February 23, 2015
How can we encourage the return migration of high-skilled individuals to countries experiencing “brain drain?” In a new paper, Mathis Wagner and his coauthors present the first evidence on the efficacy of a major program designed to do so by using the case of Malaysian Returning Expert P...
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February 04, 2015
Six months have passed since the WHO declared the current outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. This declaration set in motion an international response to curb the spread of the disease. While far from over, there are signs that the epide...
Feb
3
2015
12:00—1:30 PM
February 03, 2015
Subsidizing fuel consumption imposes substantial strain on government budgets and crowds out spending on important policy areas like capital investments, health, education, and social safety nets. Yet politicians reduce fuel subsidies at their peril: many attempts at pricing reform are met with stif...