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May 19, 2025
In 2019, Germany and the Philippines established the world’s first nursing Global Skill Partnership (GSP). In a GSP, the destination country pays for the training of much-needed workers within the country of origin. This blog explores the implementation of this partnership, lessons learned, and next...
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May 19, 2025
This month saw joint meetings of the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Convention. These meetings are held once every two years, and are the key mechanisms for international collaboration on safe management of toxic chemicals. The Basel Convention covers interna...
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May 16, 2025
The 21st replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA), the concessional lending arm of the World Bank, concluded last December, with donors pledging $23.7 billion for a replenishment totaling $100 billion. A month later, President Trump took office, and his administration impleme...
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May 16, 2025
Recent US foreign aid cuts have severely impacted life-saving health and humanitarian programs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with sectors such as education, reproductive health, and maternal care facing substantial funding reductions. These cuts are likely to reduce service delivery i...
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May 16, 2025
The Trump administration insists it is preserving life-saving assistance as it dismantles USAID. The evidence to date is that it is failing in that task—significant award cancellations and payment delays mean that people are dying. The administration’s proposed budget (which includes a 62 percent cu...
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May 13, 2025
The US pays—by far—the highest prices for on-patent prescription drugs of any country on earth. The White House just issued an executive order purporting to fix this problem.
But the proposed solution—that the US should pay the “most-favored-nation” price for prescription drugs to “bring prices fo...
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