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Jan
16
2014
4:00—5:30 PM
December 19, 2013
AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations, a new book by Ethan Kapstein and Joshua Busby, describes the politics and economics of the profound transformation in the market for antiretroviral (ARV) medications from “high price, low volume” to “universal access.” How did that cha...
Dec
19
2013
10:00—11:30 AM
December 05, 2013
As we approach 2015, the UN High-Level Panel report calling for a “data revolution” has reignited debate on how the international community produces, shares, evaluates, and uses statistics. Despite advances since the MDGs were launched, gaps persist in the capacity of most developing countries to pr...
Dec
5
2013
2:00—3:00 PM
November 26, 2013
CGD senior policy analyst Sarah Rose will forecast which countries the Millennium Challenge Corporation's board of directors is likely to select for FY2014 compact and threshold program eligibility at its December 10th board meeting. Drawing on a new MCA Monitor analysis released earlier in the week...
Dec
3
2013
12:00—1:30 PM
November 26, 2013
Nearly 60% of Uganda’s population is under 20 years old. This generation faces health and economic challenges associated with HIV, early pregnancy and unemployment. In this MADS, Markus Goldstein presents the results of a combined program of (i) vocational training and (ii) information on health and...
Dec
4
2013
4:00—5:30 PM
November 26, 2013
Technological constraints on the ability to send and receive money securely to remote locations are a common cause of poor implementation of anti-poverty programs. In new work based on one of the largest randomized controlled trials ever conducted, Karthik Muralidharan and colleagues (Paul Niehaus a...