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CGD NOTES
September 16, 2024
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, ...
BRIEFS
September 12, 2024
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...
CGD NOTES
September 11, 2024
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 ...
CGD NOTES
September 11, 2024
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 ...
BRIEFS
September 09, 2024
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...
CGD NOTES
September 05, 2024
Access to effective antimicrobials is crucial to any healthcare system, but in many countries, necessary antimicrobials are not available to patients because they have not been registered and/ or introduced. This introduction barrier is particularly prevalent in low- and middle-income countries (LMI...
BRIEFS
September 05, 2024
Financing needs in low- and middle-income countries are at all time high as a result of COVID-19 shocks, soaring debts and elevated interest rates. At the same time, there is increasing pressure on ODA budgets due to weak economic growth in Europe and conflicting priorities. The EU’s concessional fi...
