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Blog Post
January 26, 2022
Consider the situation. Faced with growing fiscal stress, the government of an energy-exporting country decides to cut generous subsidies, doubling the price of fuel overnight. Protestors are out on the streets, clashing violently with security forces called in to maintain law and order. They vent t...
Blog Post
December 10, 2021
This blog is part of CGD’s Governing Data for Development project, which explores how governments can use data to support innovation, development, and inclusive growth while protecting citizens and communities against harm. Rachel Sibande is a member of the working group that guides the project.
Blog Post
December 10, 2021
To mark this year’s Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day on December 12, we’ve brought together recent work from CGD’s global health policy team to advance #HealthForAll through an elevated financing agenda. As the devastating toll of COVID-19 shows the financial and human costs of inadequate po...
BRIEFS
December 06, 2021
This brief is based on a roundtable hosted by CGD as part of the Governing Data for Development project, which explores how governments can use data to support innovation, development, and inclusive growth while protecting citizens and communities against harm. The views expressed here are those of ...
CGD NOTES
December 06, 2021
This note summarizes two years of research under the Center for Global Development project “Governing Data for Development,” led by Michael Pisa and Ugonma Nwankwo along with project co-chairs Pam Dixon and Benno Ndulu. The project was funded by the Hewlett Foundation and guided by a ...
Blog Post
December 01, 2021
We worked with the Joint Learning Network (JLN) Efficiency Collaborative to gain insights from Collaborative members who represent technical staff and decision-makers working at the heart of health benefit packages development and revisions in eleven low-and middle-income countries in Africa and Asi...
Blog Post
November 23, 2021
CGD's Masood Ahmed speaks with Sida's Carin Jämtin and MCC's Alexia Latortue about their takeaways from the 2021 Development Leaders Conference, including the tensions between national and global challenges, how development agency leaders can address them, and what these decisions might mean for age...
CASE STUDIES
November 18, 2021
Since 2018, the government of Kenya has worked on a series of policies and pilots to support the implementation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022. UHC ensures that all individuals and communities receive the health services they need without suffering financial hardship. As part of this eff...
CASE STUDIES
November 18, 2021
Zambia has been steadily working towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) since the 1990s. Zambia's UHC ambition rests primarily on the delivery of two Health Benefits Packages (HBPs): the National Health Care Package (NHCP) and the National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) Ben...
Blog Post
November 17, 2021
At the outset of the pandemic, CGD launched a website, g2p-network.org to facilitate a series of working groups exploring digital payments and COVID-19 and to highlight important findings in the vast and rapidly growing array of academic and policy work on G2P systems. Today, we’re launching a ...