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December 13, 2022
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) health accounts team launched its much-awaited annual Global Health Expenditure Report on December 8, 2022. The report is a major effort of not only the WHO team, but also of the countries that submitted their valuable data. This blog summarizes a few of my refl...
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December 07, 2022
How exactly should China's policymakers wade through competing models and guidance as it looks to ease its anti-COVID measures? This blog looks at how they should use models, using the case of the state of Hawaii; in sum, recommending that China’s National Health Commission take a thoughtful approac...
Blog Post
August 03, 2022
While many small firms closed their doors during the pandemic, surprisingly few larger firms failed. Instead, they survived by cutting costs and forgoing investment, depleting their productive capital in the process. A new report from CGD and the IDB examines the challenges faced by firms during the...
Blog Post
February 24, 2022
Last week, the central bank of Chile became the 9th member of the Latin American Reserve Fund (known by its Spanish acronym, FLAR), Latin America’s regional lender of last resort. This is great news for the pursuit of financial and economic stability in the region. Here is why.