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Blog Post
May 01, 2024
At the core of African food insecurity are the continent’s notoriously low crop yields—the amount of produce farmers harvest relative to the area of land they farm. And one of the main reasons for low yield compared to other regions is that African countries, on average, use far less fertilizer to b...
CGD NOTES
March 28, 2024
Over the past two decades, China has become a distinctive and increasingly important donor of development assistance for health (DAH). However, little is known about what factors influence China’s priority-setting for DAH. In this study, we provide an updated analysis of trends in the priorities of ...
Blog Post
February 26, 2024
As policymakers and financiers set their priorities for 2024, we gathered a group of experts who've been working on pandemics and pandemic financing from a range of perspectives including epidemiology, economics, insurance, policy, and advocacy. The purpose of our event was to map out the next steps...
Blog Post
November 30, 2023
The latest climate COP, or “Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,” got underway today in Dubai. It will be attended by thousands of delegates from governments, the private sector, media, and civil society, with two hectic weeks of events and negotiat...
Blog Post
November 15, 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, whole genomic sequencing (WGS)-based surveillance played a key role in identifying variants of concern, investigating their spread and transmissibility, and facilitating the design and optimization of medical countermeasures, including diagnostic tools and vaccines. How...
Blog Post
October 25, 2023
A couple of years ago I joked that many development economics papers could be summarized by simply saying “schools: they’re good!”—or as an economist might put it, “the returns to education are positive.” Papers documenting the benefits of education have been at the core of development economics for...