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Blog Post
June 23, 2022
Despite this competitive landscape, there is an opportunity to develop a comprehensive and articulate G7 response on global health including pandemic preparedness and response. While some note the multiple asks circulating from ACT-A, the Global Fund, WHO, the new pandemic financial intermediary fun...
BRIEFS
June 23, 2022
COVID-19 has shown the detrimental consequences of insufficient and fragmented financing for outbreak preparedness, prevention, and response (PPR). As the world seeks to recover from the current COVID-19 pandemic, and to mitigate recovery needs for future health crises, more must be done to accelera...
Blog Post
June 14, 2022
Monkeypox has been around for decades, but it has been low priority for global and public health, despite a notable reemergence of the disease in West and Central Africa in 2017. Now, as the virus reaches 35 countries outside the West and Central African regions, the disease’s current dynamics are s...
Blog Post
June 10, 2022
In June 2021, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, offered a challenge to the world: “To truly end the pandemic, our goal must be to vaccinate at least 70 percent of the world’s population by the time you meet again in Germany next year.” However, as we approach this year’s G7 summit, the 70 percent target has b...
CGD NOTES
June 09, 2022
As one of the only truly global institutions, the World Bank is uniquely positioned to be the world’s premier source funding for global public goods. But despite its global coverage, the World Bank has never truly been oriented towards global challenges. Its mission has been defined primarily by ind...
Blog Post
June 09, 2022
At a time when governments seem able to agree on very little, the consensus around the Bank’s need to scale up its engagement on climate and other global public goods is striking. But “scaling up ambition” is vague, and there remains a great deal of work to do to pin down what it means in practice f...
Blog Post
June 02, 2022
In May, the World Bank issued a white paper on a new financial intermediary fund (FIF) for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. This document will be the basis for subsequent discussion and approval by the World Bank’s Board, composed of 25 constituencies representing 189 country governm...