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Blog Post
February 09, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is a critical illness crisis, with more than two million deaths worldwide and hospitals overburdened with 67 percent of COVID-19 admissions requiring oxygen. With the emergence of new variants and the rise of second or third epidemic waves, there is unprecedented demand for oxy...
Dec
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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...
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 25, 2020
Despite mortality data being crucial to our collective fates, the state of mortality reporting is dire. How is it possible to assess whether sub-Saharan African countries are winning the fight against COVID-19 if more than 70 percent of total deaths in a non-COVID year go unreported?
Sep
25
2020
11:00—12:30 PM ET
September 16, 2020
Around the world, governments at all levels struggle to rapidly and accurately produce data on total deaths as well as deaths and cases of COVID-19. Too often policymakers “fly blind” in the midst of this pandemic, affecting our collective ability to determine appropriate policy responses and to eva...
Multimedia
August 21, 2020
While COVID-19 has sparked a global crisis, the developing countries hit hardest are in Latin America. If conditions worsen, Latin America could face a severe financial crisis. To stop this from happening, policymakers, donors, researchers, and multilateral organizations must cooperate to find and e...