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Dec
17
2020
2:00—3:00 PM EST
December 08, 2020
Excise taxes have traditionally been reliable sources of government revenue, but they are also used as a means of discouraging the consumption of products that harm health or the environment—tobacco, alcohol, fuel products and, more recently, sugar-sweetened beverages. How should policymakers d...
Oct
28
2020
1:00—2:00 PM EDT
October 20, 2020
Seventy-five years after its inception, the multilateral development system is under stress and challenged as never before. At the threshold of the “decade of action” (2020-2030), the multilateral development system has hardly ever been so solicited, with a highly ambitious global development agenda...
Blog Post
October 14, 2020
To maximise the impact of this badly needed investment to combat COVID and, most importantly, to avoid any perverse and potentially catastrophic implications of World Bank financing undermining current global efforts led by Gavi and CEPI, we propose that the World Bank commit to the four principles ...
Blog Post
September 11, 2020
To cap a volatile week, the countries that own the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will likely elect a new president—US citizen Mauricio Claver Carone (aka MCC)—from a field of one. Others have parsed the pros and cons of this outcome given the upcoming US election; here, we look at the priori...
Blog Post
June 22, 2020
A simple way to guarantee an adequate flow of long-run, sustained funding for health surveillance and disease control, and to prepare for the next novel virus in the world’s poor countries, is to create an endowment dedicated to that purpose. A $10 billion endowment could generate income of $500 mil...
Blog Post
May 01, 2020
As low- and middle-income countries are hit by the health and economic effects of COVID-19, the international community is working to mobilize billions of dollars in grants, loans, and debt relief. At the moment, it is difficult to get a full picture of the funding on offer, to whom it is given, and...
Apr
2
2020
10:00—11:30 AM ET
April 02, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is on track to take a global human and economic toll unprecedented in modern times. The overriding imperative of implementing effective health measures in each affected country, along with the need to address the damaging economic effects of the pandemic, point to a pressing ne...