Research

The Global Roadmap for Action on the Care Economy (GRAC) provides a strategic framework that maps the global care landscape and its opportunities, highlights existing data and gaps in measurement, supports coordination and de-siloing efforts, and provides insights to inform future advocacy, research...

EU member states have ambitious green transition targets and healthcare strategies in place, requiring the relevant sectors to expand. Yet these sectors are already suffering from large workforce shortages. Expanding skilled migration from third countries to the EU to meet these shortages risks stri...

Africa, developing Asia excluding China, and Latin America have contributed less than 20 percent of cumulative global carbon emissions. But they are on the receiving end of negative climate impacts on growth, poverty reduction, and human development. They disproportionately confront heat, droughts, ...

COVID-19 laid bare the shortcomings in health product markets that contributed to inequitable access to medical countermeasures like vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics in low- and middle-income countries. A key challenge is that manufacturing for health products is concentrated in a handful of co...

The Lusaka Agenda envisages fundamental shifts in the role of health aid towards sustainable domestically financed health services, country ownership, and donor alignment with country priorities and systems. In a previous policy paper CGD proposed a New Compact for health aid which is fully aligned ...

While the New Compact proposal highlights the various challenges with the current global health architecture and outlines an approach to “put aid in its place” by empowering country-led priority-setting, there is nevertheless a place for regional or global institutions to set priorities on regional ...

The EU, when combined with its Member States, is the world’s largest provider of climate finance, but its efforts are not having the geopolitical or climate impacts they should. we propose that the EU create a climate finance impact taskforce to drive the improvement of climate finance programming a...