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Blog Post
November 21, 2023
The European Commission launched a new ‘Skills and Talent Mobility’ package. The package included the creation of a new European Union Talent Pool which aims to match EU-based employers with jobseekers in non-EU (or ‘third’) countries. This blog explores the history of this idea, why the EC thinks i...
Blog Post
November 20, 2023
Climate change will impact migration patterns. Numerous efforts have been made to quantify the scale and timelines of this impact. This is quite sensible. Policies are better when we know where their beneficiaries are, what their needs are, when these needs will arise, and how any intervention will ...
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
November 01, 2023
We are often presented with a false dichotomy: you can either push for rapid progress or strive for broad-based inclusion. However, when it comes to global talent, this just isn't true. Exceptional talent can be both the jet fuel for progress and the bridge to a more inclusive world.
Blog Post
September 14, 2023
COVID-19 is fading from public discussion, countries’ , and hopes for a safer and fairer future are being dashed by potentially watered-down political commitments. Yet people around the world continue to feel the impacts of COVID-19 every day, other infectious disease threats have not magically gone...
Blog Post
September 05, 2023
Today the Africa Centers for Disease Control’s (ACDC) Health Economics Programme (HEP) has published a new policy brief on the cost-effectiveness of two COVID-19 oral antivirals (COAVs), a nirmatrelvir/ritonavir combination, developed by Pfizer and sold under the name Paxlovid, and Molnupiravir, dev...
Blog Post
August 01, 2023
A number of aid advocates have started (re)using the fear of migration flows to drum up support for increased, or at least sustained, development and climate finance. Their argument is that such finance will reduce migration flows; that we should support and protect prosperous and sustainable econom...
Blog Post
July 25, 2023
As the RST builds momentum and scores of countries seek its concessional loans and technical assistance, a new CGD paper, The Resilience and Sustainability Trust: Early Learning and Challenges from Costa Rica and Rwanda, provide early learning from the point of view of lower-income countries themsel...
POLICY PAPERS
July 25, 2023
Demand for the IMF's Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) is strong, and the RST is becoming the IMF’s de facto climate finance facility. At the same time, the RST faces a number of challenges, including being far too small to confront climate resilience. Early lessons from RST pilots in Costa...
Blog Post
July 24, 2023
The UK has much to learn from its performance during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as its extensive involvement in the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak. Important questions linger as to why the UK—a world-leader in public health, and a country in possession of a flourishing biological research secto...