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July 18, 2025
Gavi’s board and leadership must stretch scarce resources to fulfill a challenging double mandate: (1) stabilizing immunization outcomes and fiscal solvency in Gavi-eligible countries facing severe health financing shocks; and (2) laying the groundwork for durable transformation via a radically simp...
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July 10, 2025
In this brief—the first in the Tough Times, Tough Choices series that will target the major global health and development institutions and their funders—we propose a different approach: radically streamlining the WHO to fulfil its unique global functions. Instead of muddling through with budget cuts...
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June 26, 2025
This brief examines how the 40 most important development finance providers perform in terms of both the quantity and quality of their contributions. Although several major providers recently announced significant cuts to their finance that are not yet reflected in the data, our analysis establishes...
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March 27, 2025
African health systems are at a crossroads, grappling with systemic challenges including workforce shortages, underfunded infrastructure, and climate-driven health burdens. Volatile financing—driven by unpredictable donor commitments and competing global priorities—has left countries vulnerable to d...
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March 01, 2025
This brief sets out options for the UK's Treasury in the use of the aid budget for meeting refugee-related costs.
The current approach is deeply problematic. It fails to deliver accounting officer responsibility for value for money, having contributed to significant unnecessary expenditure on refu...
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November 07, 2024
How committed is each country to tackling climate change at home and to helping developing countries? We consider nine key indicators on the world’s major economies spanning their climate contributions in three areas: international finance, policy, and emissions. Indicators are calculated to be comp...
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October 08, 2024
There is a major under-supply of financing for climate adaptation. This under-supply is expected to continue, and to grow. The 2009 commitment made by high-income countries to provide US$100 billion per year in climate finance was only achieved in 2022, two years late, with only US$32.4 billion (28 ...
