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CGD NOTES
March 06, 2025
The dramatic and unexpected cessation of US foreign aid could change the trajectory of development assistance for years to come. The sudden stop in funding is reverberating globally, destabilizing the aid community and cutting off access to hundreds of lifesaving programs affecting millions of peopl...
CGD NOTES
March 05, 2025
It's been repeated time and again: The US trade deficit stems from a persistent savings-investment gap. Without closing that gap, the deficit won’t shrink. Tariffs may reduce the bilateral trade deficit with one country, but they increase the trade deficits with others—like pressing on one part of a...
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...
CGD NOTES
January 24, 2025
Internal displacement—that is the forced movement of people within the country they live in—is at crisis levels. There were 46.9 million internal displacements, or movements, recorded during 2023, across 151 countries. While some of these movements were a result of preemptive evacuation ahead of a d...
CGD NOTES
January 15, 2025
Some miracles resist forgetting. They continue to hold out hope for believers. The East Asian Miracle that apparently blessed four economies with a growth bonanza in the last quarter of the twentieth century, endures because a legion of countries believe that supernatural events can be made to recur...
CGD NOTES
November 12, 2024
In recent decades, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have turned to health technology assessment (HTA) to prioritize health care interventions in pursuit of universal health coverage. HTA has demonstrated its value through significant cost savings, as demonstrated by Thailand and Brazil, whe...
