During the COVID-19 pandemic, whole genomic sequencing (WGS)-based surveillance played a key role in identifying variants of concern, investigating their spread and transmissibility, and facilitating the design and optimization of medical countermeasures, including diagnostic tools and vaccines. How...

On 1st October, the EU soft launched its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which aims to help avoid “carbon leakage”, where companies move their production to country with less stringent climate policies. Reporting requirements will start from 2024 and full charges will come into effect in ...

After four and a half years at CGD, our senior fellow Dave Evans is embarking on a new and exciting adventure a few blocks away with our friends at the Inter-American Development Bank. But we couldn’t let him go without sending him off with what is becoming a Dave tradition: a round-up of his blogs ...

How newspapers and media outlets cover a topic can affect what people believe and what they do. Research shows that news coverage affects people’s actions across many aspects of their lives, from voting to fertility. In education, violence in schools is a crucial challenge: it is common, it is insuf...

Over the years, US lawmakers of many stripes have embraced the value proposition of foreign assistance. While their precise motivations have varied, ensuring US international aid is transparent, accountable, and effective has been vital to this long-running bipartisan support.

Schools play many roles in society, but most people believe that they should at least help children to master fundamental skills—like literacy and numeracy—and make sure that children are safe in their care. Unfortunately, far too often, children are neither safe, nor learning. Many children experie...

Once again the links come to from a precariously balanced laptop, perched on cramped knees on a bus, packed cheek-by-jowl with other commuters. It's not a set-up that inspires great chattiness. Nor does Sri Lanka's ongoing attempt to plumb depths of cricketing incompetence never before plumbed, or—s...