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Blog Post
September 14, 2023
COVID-19 is fading from public discussion, countries’ , and hopes for a safer and fairer future are being dashed by potentially watered-down political commitments. Yet people around the world continue to feel the impacts of COVID-19 every day, other infectious disease threats have not magically gone...
Blog Post
August 03, 2023
No healthcare system has an unlimited budget, and policy makers everywhere must balance demand for new health services with finite resources. Priority setting systems, often in the form of health technology assessment (HTA), can help evaluate whether health services provide good value for the money...
Blog Post
July 30, 2023
In a new paper, we examine the connection between exposure to lead—a dangerous but prevalent neurotoxicant—and children’s learning outcomes. We find that lead poisoning alone could account for more than 20 percent of the learning gap between rich and poor countries. Given the comparative ease of, sa...
Blog Post
July 14, 2023
It’s rare to read an education report that doesn’t mention the learning crisis. As data on low learning levels have emerged in recent years, global education aid has swung its focus sharply toward improving test scores among primary school children. Of course, learning to read is a good thing in its...
Blog Post
May 24, 2023
The Working Group has been built on existing proposals and initiatives which people from across the AMR space have kindly taken the time to share with us during the last 18 months. Indeed, more than 60 percent of people that we interviewed as part of our Landscape Review highlighted the need for a b...
Blog Post
May 18, 2023
Today we launched two country case studies examining policy proposals to improve antimicrobial procurement in India and Brazil (versão em português). These studies are outputs of CGD’s working group on antimicrobial procurement in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), which is developing recomme...