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POLICY PAPER
July 30, 2024
Internal displacement in the context of climate change and disasters is now recognized as a development issue with humanitarian consequences. As countries gain a greater understanding of the underlying drivers of displacement, and the corrosive effect it has on development outcomes, re-positioning p...
BRIEF
July 24, 2024
The movement towards Open Access research is part of a broader vision for Open Science, championed by multilateral initiatives, notably UNESCO, and various G20 convenings. While this movement has achieved some progress by reducing paywalls, gains have been modest and slow and, more importantly, have...
CGD NOTE
July 24, 2024
Experience suggests that the potential inherent in crises has been oversold. Countries have experienced “good” crises, which unlocked policy actions. The positive outcomes that followed were the result of a congruence of enabling factors. In most instances, countries hit by a crisis are ill-prepared...
POLICY PAPER
July 17, 2024
Health systems, weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic, lack sufficient financing to rebuild and respond to the surging non-communicable diseases epidemic caused by uncontrolled risk factors such as tobacco, alcohol, and sugar consumption. Opportunities to raise domestic resources are limited and debt bu...
WORKING PAPER
July 16, 2024
High teacher attrition affects education systems through direct costs in replacing teachers who left the service, and indirect costs in classroom disruption and loss in experience. Efforts to address teacher shortage must be informed by which teachers leave and why. Using administrative data from Bu...
BRIEF
July 16, 2024
A quest for economic security and strategic autonomy have come to define the EU’s politics. The need to compete globally for the finite resources required for the green and digital transitions, and rivalries between the US and China for global dominance, are all driving this agenda. We propose a res...
BRIEF
July 09, 2024
On March 19, 2024, the European Parliament's Committee on Development hosted a workshop titled “Confronting Debt, Climate Change, and Poverty: Global Financial Architecture Reform and the Fiscal Space of Developing Countries.” CGD experts contributed briefing on key elements of the discussion: the c...
