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Apr
19
2022
9:00—10:15 AM ET (US & Canada) / 2 - 3:15pm British Summer Time (BST) / 4 – 5:15pm Eastern Africa Time (EAT) / 6 - 7:15pm Pakistan Standard Time (PKT)
April 19, 2022
International financial organizations (IFIs) and country governments have an important opportunity to ensure health taxes move forward more rapidly. Join CGD for a conversation on how the IMF and World Bank can build on their track record in tobacco, alcoholic, and sugary beverage taxes to help low-...
Nov
9
2021
10:00—12:45 PM EASTERN TIME (US AND CANADA)
October 25, 2021
In early 2021, CGD launched the COVID-19 Gender and Development Initiative with two objectives: increase the importance of gender equality on the policy agendas of global decision-makers in COVID response and recovery, and generate resources to ensure their decisions are evidence-based. Since then, ...
Feb
3
2021
9:30—10:30 AM ET
January 25, 2021
Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Minister of Finance of Nigeria, sit down with CGD Executive Vice President Amanda Glassman to discuss insights from their new book on Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons, and the implications of their findi...
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...