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Blog Post
April 28, 2022
In the past two years, we have all learned that the end of a COVID-19 wave is the end of a chapter, not the end of the story. Ongoing COVID transmission means the risk of new variants of pandemic potential is ever present and vaccination remains our best defence. The primary near-term challenges for...
BRIEFS
April 28, 2022
COVID-19 radically changed most people’s lives in 2020, including across Africa. In Ethiopia, the disruption started with school closing, and other restrictions soon followed. Despite these efforts to contain the virus, Ethiopia—like almost all countries—suffered significant health impacts. It has r...
Blog Post
April 28, 2022
CGD's Lee Crawfurd and Aisha Ali make the case for free secondary education, arguing that experiences of free primary education shows how free secondary education could work. And Robert Osei and Kwabena Adu-Ababio say free school is pro-poor for countries that can afford it. But Cambridge University...
CGD in the News
March 29, 2022
Contagion spoke with Anthony McDonnell, senior policy analyst, Center for Global Development and Javier Guzman, MD, director of Global Health Policy and a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development who offered their perspectives on the challenges of AMR in low-income and middle-income...
CGD in the News
February 09, 2022
The U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office was targeted in a “serious cyber security incident” in January, but the only way you would know that is by poring over the text of an obscure $633,000 contract award notice they issued for “urgent business support.”
Blog Post
December 20, 2021
High-income countries play a key role in the global response to Omicron. Their decisions can help increase global vaccination coverage, curb the spread of current variants, and prevent the emergence of new ones. Here we outline three actions high-income countries should take to help end the pandemic...