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Blog Post
August 03, 2023
On August 1, 2023, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken launched the new Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy at the Acheson Auditorium in the State Department. Reorganizing government is unglamorous and rife with political hazards, but it has the potential to build a faster and better...
Blog Post
December 15, 2022
Most recently, the Center for Global Development hosted two conferences—the first is the Bali Care Economy Dialogue, a collaborative effort with The Asia Foundation and other partners alongside the G20, and the second our annual Birdsall House Conference on Gender Equality, this year focused on chil...
BRIEFS
December 08, 2022
Drug-resistant infections kill an estimated 5,400 Canadian citizens every year. Without sufficient R&D investment for new antimicrobials, deaths from drug-resistant infections could increase dramatically in the coming decade. We present the results of a modelling exercise to estimate the likely ROI ...
Blog Post
August 25, 2022
The Office of Foreign Assistance performs three core functions. First, it coordinates the formulation of future USAID and State Department foreign assistance budget requests—a process that begins two years before the start of a fiscal year. Second, it manages the execution of the current fiscal year...
Blog Post
March 18, 2022
Nearly six months into the fiscal year, Congress finally delivered an FY22 spending bill last week. But even after stalled negotiations prompted worries that lawmakers would be unable to reach a deal at all, the final measure is something of a disappointment—failing to deliver sufficient resources t...
Blog Post
March 19, 2019
PEPFAR has long enjoyed bipartisan support on the Hill. Yet, it has not been spared from significant cuts in President Trump’s latest budget request for foreign aid. It is noteworthy that this administration’s three successive budget requests have proposed increasingly large cu...
CGD NOTES
December 12, 2018
The US has long sought enhanced coherence, quality, and efficiency from its UN and NGO partners; it is time that the US government place these same demands upon itself. As the US Government grapples with how best to reconfigure its humanitarian engagement, it should adopt a Goldwater-Nicho...