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Blog Post
October 14, 2024
In this note we estimate what refugee costs might come to in 2024, and consider ways to reduce costs. We find that if the government continues to spend and report the same amount of ODA per asylum seeker and refugee as in 2023, then total refugee-related costs will remain high, at around £3.6 billio...
BRIEFS
September 30, 2024
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is responsible for a large and growing burden of mortality, morbidity, and economic impacts. This is due to three underlying problems: lack of access to essential antimicrobials, insufficient stewardship of these drugs to prevent overuse and misuse, and a dearth of inn...
BRIEFS
September 12, 2024
COVID-19 laid bare the shortcomings in health product markets that contributed to inequitable access to medical countermeasures like vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics in low- and middle-income countries. A key challenge is that manufacturing for health products is concentrated in a handful of co...
BRIEFS
September 09, 2024
The EU, when combined with its Member States, is the world’s largest provider of climate finance, but its efforts are not having the geopolitical or climate impacts they should. we propose that the EU create a climate finance impact taskforce to drive the improvement of climate finance programming a...
BRIEFS
September 05, 2024
Financing needs in low- and middle-income countries are at all time high as a result of COVID-19 shocks, soaring debts and elevated interest rates. At the same time, there is increasing pressure on ODA budgets due to weak economic growth in Europe and conflicting priorities. The EU’s concessional fi...
Blog Post
July 18, 2024
Fiscal pressures in G7 countries are real—Germany’s cabinet has just agreed to implement further spending cuts in response to theirs—but so too is the geopolitical case for investing more in climate and development. The replenishment of the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) fu...
BRIEFS
July 16, 2024
A quest for economic security and strategic autonomy have come to define the EU’s politics. The need to compete globally for the finite resources required for the green and digital transitions, and rivalries between the US and China for global dominance, are all driving this agenda. We propose a res...
CGD NOTES
June 28, 2024
Questions concerning the relevance and reform of official development assistance (ODA), and how ODA and broader development finance could—or should—change to better reflect shifting demands are not new, with academics and policymakers suggesting a range of options for reform. In this background note...
CGD NOTES
June 28, 2024
Frequent efforts to revise the official development assistance (ODA) accounting rules have raised important questions about the integrity and relevance of what currently “counts” as ODA spending. In this note, we outline a brief history of the evolution of the ODA accounting rules to date, highlight...
