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Blog Post
December 21, 2022
If economists are the ‘dismal scientists’ always harping on about limited resources, evaluators are often considered the ‘pessimist scientists’ who only see the half-empty glass, rather than the half-full one. The end of the year is, however, a perfect time to break with that tradition. It is a time...
Nov
17
2022
2:00—3:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/ 7:00—8:00pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
November 09, 2022
Last month, the Center for Global Development convened experts to lay out the major issues and challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean region and to discuss priorities for the next President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). In the run-up to the IDB election on November 20, ca...
CGD NOTES
November 07, 2022
The assignment is clear. During this year’s Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank, shareholders instructed the World Bank to develop a work program for its own evolution (“to identify gaps in the Bank’s current institutional and operational framework…”) by the end of the year. Secretary Yellen l...
Oct
15
2022
11:00—12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/ 3:00 - 4:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/ 4:00 - 5:00pm British Summer Time (BST)
October 11, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic, the escalating climate and biodiversity crisis, and rising food insecurity have demonstrated the critical role the World Bank plays in protecting global public goods and responding to global challenges. In October 2021, CGD co-hosted an official side event on the role of the W...
CGD NOTES
May 11, 2022
This note takes a quick look at the lessons learned and the existing landscape of MCM manufacturing in the context of the current pandemic response and suggests eight areas for action along with near-term recommendations to the global community to both prepare and respond to future pandemic risks.
Nov
19
2021
9:00—10:15 AM Eastern time (US and Canada)
November 12, 2021
As many countries move towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), there are many questions about whether to include (and if so, how?) disease programmatic areas that are heavily supported by external funding in health benefits packages (HBPs)
Blog Post
February 10, 2021
In October 2020, the Center for Global Development—in partnership with African Union Development Agency-NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD), UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and the African Leaders Malaria Alliance—hosted a high-level roundtable on regional health product manufacturing in Africa. This blog...
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...