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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...
Blog Post
October 05, 2022
It is surely an urgent moment for multilateral support from the IMF and World Bank. And yet, the institutions’ financial statements suggest that support is declining. Figuring out why and what to do about it should be priority one at the upcoming World Bank-IMF annual meetings.
Oct
20
2022
10:00—11:15 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)/ 2:00 -3:15pm GMT/ 3:00 – 4:15pm British Summer Time (BST)
October 01, 2022
While worldwide demand for care is increasing, there is limited data on the extent that care-related services are provided at communal, national, and international levels, as well as context-specific data on the economic and social benefits that investments in the care sector could yield. This event...
Blog Post
September 28, 2022
Development agencies are operating in an increasingly complex development landscape, defined by a “perfect long storm” of interconnected challenges. In this context, agencies will face tough choices related to how, where, and on what to spend limited development resources, as well as questions about...
Oct
6
2022
9:00—10:30 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada) /1:00 - 2:30pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/ 2:00 - 3:30pm British Summer Time (BST) / 3:00 - 4:30pm Central European Summer Time (CEST)
September 22, 2022
What is the impact of IMF-provided capacity development (CD) on IMF member countries developing their institutional and human capacity to design and implement sound macroeconomic and financial policies? Does the Fund identify the right priorities and is CD sufficiently integrated with the Fund’s sur...
Blog Post
September 22, 2022
The UK is being asked for £1.8 billion, making this one of the biggest decisions facing James Cleverly, the new Secretary of State, within his first two weeks of the job. We will review what is known about the FCDO’s likely commitment, and recommend four key questions that the new Secretary of State...
Blog Post
September 09, 2022
In this blog post, we discuss the implications for carbon emissions and climate debt if the G20 countries implemented the most recent pledges in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Despite positive developments in the US on climate legislation, we find that the implementation of the G2...
Blog Post
September 08, 2022
Achieving SDG 5 and other gender-related SDG targets will require robust data systems that can only be established through smarter and sustainable investments in data collection, analysis, and use. This necessitates renewed commitments by philanthropic and bilateral donors, governments, and internat...
Jul
28
2022
9:00—10:00 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada) 1:00 - 2:00pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/ 2:00 - 3:00pm British Summer Time (BST)
July 14, 2022
When COVID-19 first emerged, leaders scrambled to design and implement a mechanism to facilitate the global vaccine rollout with urgency and without precedent. In April 2020, the World Health Organization, Gavi, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and other organizations launched CO...
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-...