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Better Decisions, Better Health: Practical Experiences Supporting UHC from around the World
December 12, 2017
In celebration of UHC day, the Center for Global Development is pleased to host a short program—Better Decisions, Better Health: Practical Experiences Supporting UHC from around the World—featuring practical experiences supporting UHC from Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and at the g...
Blog Post
Smarter Investments for Better Health: Celebrating Country Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage
Kalipso Chalkidou
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Rebecca Forman
December 11, 2017
December 12 marks the fifth annual Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day. Half a decade after the landmark UN endorsement, more countries than ever are working to translate UHC goals into reality through defined, tangible, equitable, and comprehensive health services for their populations. To cel...
SPEECHES
Keynote Address by Canadian Minister of International Development, Marie-Claude Bibeau, at the Third Annual Birdsall House Conference on Women
Marie-Claude Bibeau
December 11, 2017
On December 7, 2017, Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, Government of Canada, gave a keynote address at the the third annual Birdsall House Conference on Women, "Reproductive Choices to Life Chances: The Links between Contraception and Women&rsq...
WORKING PAPERS
Family Planning and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Incentive Effects and Direct Effects among Malaysian Women - Working Paper 471
Kimberly Singer Babiarz et al.
December 07, 2017
Although family planning programs can improve women’s welfare directly through changes in realized fertility, they may also have important incentive effects by increasing parents’ investments in girls not yet fertile. We study these potential incentive effects, finding that family planni...
WORKING PAPERS
Family Planning and Fertility Behavior: Evidence from Twentieth Century Malaysia - Working Paper 470
Kimberly Singer Babiarz et al.
December 07, 2017
There is longstanding debate about the contribution of family planning programs to fertility decline. Studying the staggered introduction of family planning across Malaysia during the 1960s and 1970s, we find modest responses in fertility behavior. Overall, Malaysia’s total fertility rate decl...
Blog Post
Access to Contraception: A Key Ingredient in Women’s Economic Empowerment
Amanda Glassman
December 04, 2017
This Thursday December 7, CGD will host a group of economists and policymakers to discuss global evidence on the causal relationship between access to contraception and women’s economic empowerment.
Blog Post
New Evidence on the Health Loss but not the Health Gain from WHO's 2009 AIDS Treatment Guidelines
Mead Over
December 01, 2017
We here at CGD tend to be critical of international agencies like WHO or the UNDP for establishing targets or guidelines without sufficient consideration of the impacts, for good and ill, of those guidelines in the affected countries. Such guidelines often apply standards more appropriate ...