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Op-Ed
December 06, 2021
Excuses easily come out of the human mouth. Let us please transfer all the energy spent on the manufacturing of excuses to create ideas for how we’ll get vaccines to Africa. If Africa can’t get the vaccines it needs, perhaps Africa should take a play from the Indonesian playbook during the 2007 avia...
Blog Post
December 02, 2021
Many countries around the world have punished most of the African continent for the scientific discovery of the Omicron variant through the imposition of travel bans. These travel bans are more injury upon the injury of low vaccination in Africa. Even well-intentioned rallying phrases such as “vacci...
Blog Post
November 12, 2021
The UK made the largest absolute contribution in the last replenishment of the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), the bank’s main instrument for assisting the world’s poorest countries.
As the World Bank mobilizes for the IDA replenishment next month, we take an analytical ...
Blog Post
October 22, 2021
A central commitment of action on climate is the promise of “developed countries” to jointly mobilize $100 billion of climate finance per year by 2020 (and through to 2025). How does this promise—which developed countries have so far failed to reach—compare to the actual cost of the damage caused by...