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Blog Post
April 16, 2025
Medical doctors regularly warn their patients about unhealthy foods and behaviors. But who is going to warn the public about unhealthy public policies and government spending? The quick answer is that other doctors (the kind with PhDs not MDs), along with qualified policy analysts of all kinds, can...
POLICY PAPER
April 16, 2025
Health taxes are a well-known fiscal measure for discouraging consumption of unhealthy products like tobacco, alcohol, and sugary beverages. Less well known are opportunities to eliminate government subsidies. This paper is an inquiry into subsidies for tobacco, alcohol, and sugary beverages, produc...
Blog Post
April 15, 2025
Grazing livestock—especially cattle—are responsible for about 5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, measured by their warming effect over 100 years, but ranchers won’t invest in methane-reducing innovations without external incentives. An Advance Market Commitment could fix this market failu...
Blog Post
April 15, 2025
The Trump administration’s actions related to development policy are rooted in the “America First” doctrine. Their approach is not in line with internationally agreed objectives but narrowly aligned with perceived national interests. We take a step back to examine the underlying principles that appe...
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April 14, 2025
EGC is collaborating with partners based in Washington D.C. to host a discussion focused on structural transformation, jobs, growth, and gender dynamics on the sidelines of the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings, on Friday, April 25, 2025. We invite colleagues who will be at the Spring Meetings in D.C. ...
Blog Post
April 14, 2025
Last week the government’s Evaluation Task Force published a new Evaluation Registry, putting together all UK government evaluations onto a single searchable website. We found that while aid-spending agencies make up only 1.3 percent of UK government spending, they are the subject of 12.5 percent of...
Blog Post
April 10, 2025
Takahiro Tsuda and Atsushi Mimura from the Japanese Ministry of Finance join Javier Guzman to examine current funding mechanisms for pandemic preparedness and response, explore Japan's role in driving global efforts (and insights gained), and discuss potential pathways to strengthen PPR financing.
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April 10, 2025
Takahiro Tsuda and Atsushi Mimura from the Japanese Ministry of Finance join Javier Guzman to examine current funding mechanisms for pandemic preparedness and response, explore Japan's role in driving global efforts (and insights gained), and discuss potential pathways to strengthen PPR financing.
POLICY PAPER
April 10, 2025
Global underinvestment in climate adaptation increases the importance of ensuring that such finance is well targeted and well spent. Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are the largest public source of adaptation finance for developing countries, and the World Bank accounts for about half of the M...
