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Blog Post
November 21, 2023
Globally, almost a third of students aged 13 to 15 have been victims of school violence. This is a deeply concerning statistic. Exposure to school violence has proven to affect students’ learning, socio-emotional development, and physical and mental health. School safety is an important precondition...
Blog Post
November 15, 2023
On 1st October, the EU soft launched its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which aims to help avoid “carbon leakage”, where companies move their production to country with less stringent climate policies. Reporting requirements will start from 2024 and full charges will come into effect in ...
Blog Post
September 19, 2023
September’s crisp fall weather is arriving, and with it, another annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), with thousands of people descending upon New York, buzzing about what should be the world’s priorities and objectives.
Fortunately, the world already has a set of #goals that were deve...
Blog Post
September 05, 2023
EU finance ministers will soon appoint a new president of the European Investment Bank (EIB). Following two six-year terms, the incumbent, Werner Hoyer, will step down, and a new captain will take the helm of the world’s largest multilateral financial institution. The new president comes at a critic...
CGD NOTES
August 18, 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) for COVID-19 on May 5 and for mpox on May 11, 2023. Throughout its use, the meaning of the PHEIC has been muddled. We call for a new, objective epidemic scale that better communicates...
Blog Post
August 15, 2023
Everyone agrees that Ghana's school feeding programme is an important and useful social programme…but insufficient and poor quality food is compromising its impacts; government financing remains a challenge; and it lacks lacks broader support and accountability mechanisms. The programme has huge pot...
Blog Post
June 30, 2023
The European Union (EU)’s arsenal of development finance instruments comprises grants, budget support, blends of grants and loans, guarantees, and trust funds. But little attention has been paid to its macro-financial assistance (MFA) tool. Since the 1990s, it has been deployed to help countries in ...
Blog Post
June 13, 2023
School feeding is one of those social policy interventions that are hard to pigeonhole in traditional sectors. The benefits span various facets of the beneficiaries’ lives and the local economy. So who should bear the responsibility and cost of provision of school meals? Despite strong political and...