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Blog Post
May 15, 2023
A significant portion of African borrowing over the last decade has gone toward building infrastructure, but still, infrastructure has not kept up with population growth across the continent. Africa currently trails the rest of the world on every measure of infrastructure coverage. This deficit is m...
Blog Post
November 28, 2022
In August, Secretary of State Antony Blinken unveiled the administration’s new US Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa. His remarks underscored the pivotal role Africa will play in shaping the future of the world and acknowledged that tackling the shared priorities of the United States and African cou...
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January 13, 2022
In the run up to the start of a long-awaited summit between the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU), CGD colleagues will be setting out their thoughts on what needs to happen for the relationship between the two contintents to be reset as a “true partnership of eq...
Blog Post
December 02, 2021
Zainab Usman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Olumide Abimbola of the Africa Policy Research Institute join Gyude to discuss the implications of the European Green Deal for Africa, the outcomes of COP26, and the impacts of the climate crisis on pandemic recovery.
Blog Post
November 04, 2021
CGD's Anit Mukherjee and Ugo Gentilini of the World Bank join Gyude to discuss how governments reach people with social protection programs, how such programs have been used during the pandemic, and what governments should do now to prepare for the next‚ inevitable, pandemic.
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August 12, 2021
This first episode of the new Africa-centered podcast series Lagos to Mombasa examines how African governments can shape their responses to the pandemic and prepare for the future. Patrick Tippoo of Biovac and the African Vaccine Manufacturing Initiative and Prashant Yadav from CGD join Gyude M...
Blog Post
February 03, 2021
On January 25, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) and CGD convened a panel of seven experts, including from government, the private sector, and financing partners, to discuss the potential for increasing DRM in the aftermath of the COVID-19 health and economic crises.
Apr
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2020
9:00—10:15 AM ET
April 13, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens lives, well-being, and economies in low- and middle-income countries. Yet many of the interventions implemented in high-income countries may be ineffective, impractical, or carry heavier consequences in LMIC contexts than they do elsewhere. In communities where most o...