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CGD NOTES
Incentivizing COVID-19 Vaccine Developers to Expand Manufacturing Capacity
Burak Kazaz et al.
March 26, 2021
Safe and efficacious vaccines are our best tools for defeating COVID-19, and an unprecedented research and development effort has led to 12 vaccines being approved for full, emergency, or limited use, globally. But to vaccinate the global population as quickly as possible requires additional product...
Blog Post
Comprehensive Primary Health Care for India: Looking at the Cost Implications of Improving Coverage for 1.4 Billion People
Diksha Singh et al.
March 16, 2021
In India there is a distinct lack of discussion around the financial and economic implications for transforming over the existing150,000 primary care centres into the new model Health and Wellness Centres. The authors are inspired to try and fill this gap.
Blog Post
Still Neglected and Still Not Gone: The Implications of COVID-19 for the WHO Policy of Elimination of Congenital Syphilis
Damian Walker
and
Godfrey Walker
March 15, 2021
In many low- and middle-income countries, the COVID-19 pandemic is limiting access to antenatal care and posing considerable challenges to global efforts to eliminate congenital syphilis. A review of the present WHO strategy to eliminate congenital syphilis is urgently neede...
Blog Post
Financing for Global Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness: Taking Stock and What’s Next
Amanda Glassman
and
Eleni Smitham
March 08, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the ways in which global pandemic preparedness and response are under-prioritized and under-resourced. But the good news is that today’s shortfalls are finally eliciting global action.
Blog Post
The Hidden Health Cost of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines
Valerie Gilbert Ulep et al.
March 04, 2021
In a recent blog, we asked “what do we really know about COVID-19’s impact on essential health services?” In that blog, our focus was primarily on what international partners were doing to monitor the effects of COVID-19 on essential health services. What we didn’t highlight is the increasingly deta...
Blog Post
Tax Reforms in Developing Countries in an Era of COVID-19
Sanjeev Gupta
and
João Tovar Jalles
March 02, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has cost lives and disrupted economic activity worldwide. It has impacted government budgets globally by reducing tax receipts and increasing spending on programs to save lives and transfer income to those adversely affected by the pandemic.
POLICY PAPERS
Using Health Taxes to Support Revenue: An Action Agenda for the IMF and World Bank
Chris Lane et al.
March 01, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to large budget gaps in low- and middle-income countries, with revenues projected to be reduced for years to come. This is the moment for policymakers to consider whether health taxes—levied on tobacco products, alcoholic and sugar-sweetened beverages, and polluting fue...