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Blog Post
December 19, 2019
When it comes to the United States, the reality is that the Global Fund is winning the fundraising game hands down. China, meanwhile, doubled its contribution to IDA—contrast that with the country’s longstanding indifference to the Global Fund. Clearly the world’s most important em...
CGD NOTES
December 12, 2019
New technology, better use of data, and entrepreneurial passion in improving distribution channels is reaching a critical mass with the potential to drive extraordinary improvements in availability, affordability, and quality of health products. Global health institutions can play a significant role...
CGD NOTES
December 10, 2019
As countries grow economically, governments face rapidly growing demands for quality, affordable, accessible, and equitable healthcare and other social services. At the same time, many middle-income countries face the prospect of transitioning away from donor aid, adding pressure to already-constrai...
Blog Post
November 26, 2019
With the Global Fund and Global Polio Eradication Initiative replenishments successfully concluded, donors are turning their attention to the Gavi Alliance whose third replenishment process is scheduled to culminate in summer 2020. As the final Gavi Board meeting o...
Blog Post
November 07, 2019
At their best, experts sitting in think tanks generate rigorous research and analysis inform policies and address the world’s most pressing challenges. But who gets to be counted among these experts? Are think tanks hiring, promoting, and compensating equitably and inclusively? And who is bein...
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October 25, 2019
Two weeks ago, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2019 to Michael Kremer, together with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
Michael K...
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October 24, 2019
The commitments laid out in the 2019 United Nations High Level Meeting Declaration on Universal Health Coverage are many and wide-ranging. Through this declaration, countries have recommitted to achieving UHC by 2030, yet there has been little discussion on how such an ambitious agenda can...
BRIEFS
October 16, 2019
The arrival of a new leadership team in Brussels provides an opportunity for Europe to reinvigorate its role as a global development power and to build a true partnership with its continental neighbour, Africa. These tasks have never been more urgent. Read here for recommendations on global health p...