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Blog Post
January 20, 2022
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, many sub-Saharan African countries will face serious economic crises and shrinking public spending. If countries are unable to spend more, they need to spend better. Europe has leading expertise in building institutions for priority-setting in health, making it an...
POLICY PAPERS
January 14, 2022
This paper aims to determine the extent to which gender was considered in the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) operations aimed at responding to the COVID pandemic and associated economic crisis. Using keywords to identify COVID response projects, we found 264 projects approved between March ...
Blog Post
January 12, 2022
Women-owned businesses around the world have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, closing at higher rates than businesses owned by men. There are a variety of reasons why this happened: partly because women are concentrated in sectors that suffered a greater drop in demand during the pandemic, an...
Blog Post
January 05, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the realpolitik of global health security. It has also illuminated some uncomfortable truths. In this blog, we explore China’s global health leadership, its international cooperation and lack thereof, and analyse what we see as the future of global health sec...