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Apr
4
2023
3:00—4:00 PM ET / 8:00-9:00 PM BST / In-person and online
March 22, 2023
The multilateral development banks are in the spotlight as countries struggle to address multiple crises, setbacks in poverty reduction, and global climate and health challenges. Shareholders and the broader international community are calling for a system-wide reform of MDBs to help them assist cou...
CGD NOTES
November 21, 2022
Spain’s relationship with Latin America can be mutually beneficial or stale and insignificant. Now, the timing is right for Spain to launch new strategies and a new framework of bilateral, multilateral, and multiregional engagement with the region, in which Spain should embrace its dual role as brid...
Blog Post
November 17, 2022
How does public health surveillance work, and how can it be done better? Amanda Glassman tackles these questions with Dr. Oliver Morgan of the WHO and Dr. Theo Vos of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Together, they examine the successes and limitations of public health surveillance d...
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...
Oct
24
2022
9:30—11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)/ 1:30 -3:00pm GMT/ 2:30 – 4:00pm British Summer Time (BST)
October 18, 2022
COVID-19 and related economic shocks have had important but heterogeneous impact across the Latin American and Caribbean region, which also faces elevated climate risks, increasing rates of poverty, declining life expectancy in some countries, and unprecedented rates of crime and violence. The Inter...
Blog Post
September 15, 2022
Countries in Latin America were hit especially hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. On this episode of Pandemic Proof, Amanda Glassman welcomes Dr. Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr., candidate for Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), to the podcast to discuss impacts and lessons learned. Tog...
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-...
CGD NOTES
March 03, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the global vaccine manufacturing landscape, with capacity more than doubling in the past 18 months. Before the pandemic, manufacturers produced an estimated total of five billion vaccine doses each year. In 2021, manufacturers produced 12 billion doses of C...