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CGD NOTES
February 07, 2025
The political economy of global health financing is increasingly driven by fiscal constraints, geopolitical instability, and shifting power dynamics. The COVID-19 pandemic stalled or reversed health gains, and countries and donors now face tightening budgets and rising debt repayments, threatening t...
Blog Post
February 07, 2025
In this blog, we look at the UK’s recent patterns in aid allocation. We find that UK aid has drifted away from those countries where extreme poverty is concentrated. The UK’s bilateral aid to Africa has been cut by two-thirds in real terms since 2019. In addition, the UK’s bilateral programmes are n...
Blog Post
February 06, 2025
The White House issued a press release three days ago apparently designed to justify the ongoing stop-work orders at USAID, alongside pulling agency staff out of the field and locking them out of their offices. I’d argue the release demonstrates precisely why these moves are a mistake. The press rel...
Blog Post
February 06, 2025
For the past two years, I’ve been part of an incredible interdisciplinary team—spanning economics, sociology, demography, and public health—working on a National Academies (NASEM) consensus study on women’s empowerment and socioeconomic development. The new report builds on NASEM’s influential 1986 ...
Blog Post
February 05, 2025
Dear Secretary Rubio: There have been few more eloquent advocates for foreign assistance than you. And I believe the case you make for US aid is backed up by considerable empirical evidence. As you have said, “millions of human beings are alive today because [of] the United States, and others in the...
Blog Post
February 05, 2025
Mexico and Canada have been on the frontline of the new global (dis)order, making their response a potential case study for how economies that are smaller and somewhat dependent on America navigate pressure from the US in this new era of economic coercion. After the 180 degrees reversal on the tarif...
WORKING PAPERS
February 05, 2025
Willingness-to-pay (WTP) experiments have been widely used to assess demand for a variety of products. Do they also generate persistent treatment effects? We answer this question using a randomized controlled trial of a baseline WTP experiment, combined with in-person and phone survey data over a fo...
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January 31, 2025
India is among the fastest growing economies in the world, thanks to sound macroeconomic policies, rapid investments in digital and physical public infrastructure, and the formalization of the Indian economy.
Building on his experience in contributing to India’s past economic reforms and a V-shap...