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WORKING PAPER
August 25, 2025
Triggers—criteria that activate alerts, financing, or response measures—are central to pandemic decision-making but remain unevenly applied and often implicit. A new framework could guide high-quality trigger design in pandemic financing and response, improving their effectiveness, reliability, and ...
CGD NOTE
August 13, 2025
The global response to COVID-19 saw rapid vaccine development and ambitious efforts like COVAX to ensure equitable access, but national self-interest ultimately prevailed, leaving many countries without timely supplies and sparking calls to diversify vaccine manufacturing. While numerous fragmented ...
CGD NOTE
August 13, 2025
Pakistan’s experience with digital ID systems under Tariq Malik highlights how digital infrastructure can improve services and empower citizens. While reforms that lower costs face less resistance, those challenging elite interests often encounter strong pushback. Sustaining innovation requires lega...
CGD NOTE
July 31, 2025
In 2014, G20 leaders committed to reducing the gender labor force participation gap by 25 percent by 2025 to boost global growth and reduce inequality, leading to a decade of policy efforts across countries. As the target year approaches, only nine G20 countries have met the specific reduction goal,...
POLICY PAPER
July 29, 2025
Despite decades of effort, nutrition remains poorly integrated into health systems and universal health coverage, often sidelined in both policy and financing. This paper explores how to better deliver nutrition-specific interventions by comparing vertical (targeted but fragmented), horizontal (syst...
