Ideas to action: independent research for global prosperity
Search
Filters:
Experts
Facet Toggle
Topics
Facet Toggle
Content Type
Facet Toggle
Publication Type
Facet Toggle
Article Type
Facet Toggle
Time Frame
Facet Toggle
Blog Post
December 12, 2022
Debt and climate change are defining challenges for many countries in Africa. Governments across the continent are seeing their debt burdens mount—some to unsustainable levels—as they race to mobilize resources to adapt and respond to the increasingly severe climate crisis.
BRIEFS
December 08, 2022
Drug-resistant infections kill an estimated 5,400 Canadian citizens every year. Without sufficient R&D investment for new antimicrobials, deaths from drug-resistant infections could increase dramatically in the coming decade. We present the results of a modelling exercise to estimate the likely ROI ...
CGD NOTES
November 29, 2022
The importance of semiconductors to the functioning of so many activities was brought home when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted production and trade. The shortage of semiconductors forced a cutback in the output of vehicles, consumer durables, and electronic equipment of all kinds, inflicting heavy ...
POLICY PAPERS
November 28, 2022
The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic—in the US and around the world—highlights the potential feasibility and importance of biomedical R&D for global health and welfare. Drawing from this experience and momentum, this paper argues that the US should deepen its engagement and ambition in global hea...
Blog Post
November 28, 2022
Building on the success of Operation Warp Speed, the US should deepen its engagement and ambition in global health R&D to drive transformative improvements in global health outcomes and security. Specifically, it should consider a subscription model for new antimicrobials; an advance market commitme...
Blog Post
November 21, 2022
As the world faces multiple crises and the economic and health scars left by the pandemic are still evident, it is clear that governments are unlikely to sustain pandemic-era health spending increases in this recovery phase. How can LMICs align their plans and discourse around universal health cover...
Dec
6
2022
8:30—9:30 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada) / 1:30 - 2:30pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
October 21, 2022
With the post-COVID 19 fiscal crises beginning to impact countries around the world, getting more health for your money has never been so important to policy makers. Countries have turned to priority setting techniques such as Health Technology Assessment (HTA) to ensure priority setting is evidence...
Oct
11
2022
9:30—10:45 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/ 2:30-3:45pm British Summer Time/ 7:30- 8:45pm Pakistan Standard Time
September 29, 2022
On top of struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, Pakistan is challenged by high inflation, debt sustainability, and reliance on external financing as well as devastating floods which will have substantial and lasting economic consequences. After Sri Lanka's default crisis, will the troubl...
POLICY PAPERS
September 20, 2022
While all corners of the world have been touched by COVID-19, countries’ experiences with the virus have certainly not been universal. Staggering divergences in outcomes between countries—in terms of lives lost, economic carnage, secondary health losses, learning loss, and social trust and cohesion,...