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Blog Post
October 03, 2013
As the debt ceiling looms and the government shutdown continues, it seems like a useful time to revisit budget-neutral ways to amp up US development policy. We recently released a proposal titled “OPIC Unleashed,” which provides a budget-neutral roadmap to strengthen US development polic...
Blog Post
September 09, 2013
This is a joint post with Yuna Sakuma.
The majority of the world’s sick live in middle-income countries (MIC) – mainly Pakistan, India, Nigeria, China and Indonesia (or PINCI), according to new data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washing...
PUBLICATION
August 14, 2013
A strengthened OPIC—more efficiently deploying existing tools at no additional budget cost—would (1) increase US commercial access in emerging economies, (2) reflect economic, social, and political priorities in developing countries, (3) promote flagship US initiatives during austere budget conditio...
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Washington, DC
3:15—3:15 PM
June 13, 2013
As one of the cornerstones of global health, widespread immunization through vaccines is critical to reducing child mortality and eradicating polio, two goals endorsed by the international community and particularly emphasized by the U.S. government. On Tuesday, June 18 from 12:30 p.m. ET to 1:30 p...
Blog Post
May 24, 2013
The Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Development held a hearing on “Different Perspectives on International Development Assistance” on Wednesday with CGD’s own Todd Moss testifying about why US development assistance matters, but also it can be improved—...
Blog Post
April 22, 2013
Immunization saves millions of lives, is among the most cost-effective health interventions ever developed, and has attracted a great deal of attention and funding from public and private donors in recent years. Indeed, global health leaders have committed to making this the ‘Decade of V...
TESTIMONY
March 18, 2013
Michael Clemens’s “Foreign Workers Benefit Massively from Guest Work Opportunities” was entered into the Congressional Record by Chairman Tim Walberg, House Education and the Workforce Committee, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, at a March 14, 2013, hearing, “Examining the Role of Lower-Skille...