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Blog Post
August 02, 2023
The future of such spending in countries currently experiencing or at high risk of debt distress is particularly troubling. A country is in debt distress when its ability to service domestic and external debt is impaired. This blog post delves into these issues based on more recent health spending a...
Blog Post
December 13, 2022
Earlier this year, the IMF board approved the establishment of the Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) to provide financial support to countries addressing long-term structural challenges, including climate change and pandemic preparedness. 143 countries are eligible to receive support from th...
Jul
7
2020
1:00—2:30 PM BST
July 07, 2020
The theme of this year’s Fifth Annual Health Financing Forum (AHFF) is Health Financing Resilience and Sustainability. Kicking-off in July, the first part of the Forum will explore key issues of health financing resilience in the face of COVID-19. The second part, tentatively scheduled for November ...
Jul
1
2020
9:30—11:00 AM ET
June 30, 2020
Procurement processes—which are vital to ensuring an affordable, reliable, and high-quality supply of health products—remain fraught with challenges, as highlighted by the Center for Global Development’s Working Group on the Future of Global Health Procurement. The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating ...
Jun
26
2020
9:00—10:30 AM EDT
June 26, 2020
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, many health-related policy decisions have relied on epidemiologic models with a near singular focus on COVID-19 cases and deaths. Collateral health effects of COVID-19 (for example disruptions of health supply chains or avoidance of care from patients) a...
CGD NOTES
June 04, 2020
Diagnostic testing is at the center of the policy debate around COVID-19 interventions in India. As of June 1, 2020, India had conducted approximately 3.8 million tests since it began testing in February, but many experts have noted that testing capacity is still drastically insufficient for the ne...
Blog Post
April 02, 2020
In the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is now evident that many of the public health and hospital-based interventions deployed by high-income countries may be ineffective or infeasible in low- and middle-income countries. We suggest a different order of priority for immediate next steps.
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