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Blog Post
April 18, 2024
Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and addressing global challenges will require a step change in private investment in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). Only a small fraction of the trillions in private assets under management are currently directed to EMDEs.
Blog Post
April 02, 2024
Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) published new guidance aiming to support government officials as they negotiate and implement international agreements on health worker mobility. In an era characterized as a “global scramble” for health workers, what does this guidance say and how can ...
Blog Post
March 19, 2024
oughly, six percent of health allocations are estimated to be siphoned away through corruption. Health systems are particularly vulnerable to corruption because of the complex nature of the provision of health care, information asymmetries and financial fragmentation. To advance progress toward UHC,...
Blog Post
March 12, 2024
There is no way that poverty can be fully tackled without policies designed to address the multiple disadvantages faced by people due to the combination of ascribed attributes including gender, age, race, ethnicity, disability, migration status, and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). And...
Blog Post
March 05, 2024
Last week, CGD and ACET (The African Center for Economic Transformation) co-hosted an event on rules that limit the cross-border transfer of digital data. The basis for the discussion was David Medine’s recent paper for CGD “Data Localization: A Tax on the Poor,” and the group involved experts and p...
Blog Post
February 26, 2024
As most of the developing world struggles to increase, let alone maintain current levels of domestic health expenditure, getting more health for the money has never been more important. Building robust health technology assessment (HTA) systems to inform governments on which health technologies and ...
Blog Post
January 11, 2024
More than 60 countries have data localization measures in place that restrict or prohibit the flow of certain types of data across their borders to other jurisdictions. A new CGD working paper by David Medine makes clear that these restrictions may have their greatest impact on smaller economies inc...
WORKING PAPERS
January 11, 2024
Localization is usually the wrong answer to legitimate data policy issues. As a result, data transfer restrictions wind up imposing unnecessary costs on providers, such as banks, which effectively serves as a tax which is either passed along to the poor or, even worse, makes it uneconomical for firm...