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Although there are few assessments of what low- and middle-income countries need to implement basic elements of primary health care, there is a huge financing gap for universal health coverage, estimated to reach $371 billion or $58 per person annually by 2030. Countries are struggling to finance th...

Check out a CGD experts' co-authored blog on economic growth for the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), as featured in Deal Town. 

An important new program to support education research and policy launched in September. The “What Works Hub for Global Education (WWHGE) is established in Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and funded by the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.

CGD is forming a working group to create an Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for rapid neonatal sepsis tests in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with funders pledging top-up payments to incentivize private companies to develop and supply these critical diagnostics.

While substantive information about the flagship projects is scarce, a new list of 46 Global Gateway flagship projects for 2025 is now available. The list of flagship projects selected for 2025 is supposed to help showcase the kind of investments the EU is offering to its partners across the globe. ...

Researchers take for granted that more evidence is better. By and large, they expect that their efforts to generate and communicate new ideas and test them empirically contribute directly or indirectly to a better world. In reality, for that impact to be realized, research needs to be noticed and ac...

Last week, the UN Foundation and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs kindly asked me to talk at an informal session on the coherence between development and climate finance. I learned a lot, and it helped me understand a little better the various positions on the issue, but I (still) ca...

Across 2024 and 2025, almost a dozen major multilateral funds are going to donors for additional funding in what we dubbed a “traffic jam” of replenishments. As 2024 draws to a close, three replenishments have concluded (sort of—read on for more). IDA is the largest and the standout: the World Bank’...