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...

Globally, women’s share in corporate leadership has been steadily rising, including in India. The female director mandate under The Companies Act (2013) in India marked a significant step toward gender-inclusive corporate leadership, requiring listed firms to have at least one woman on their board. ...

Half of children in poor countries have lead poisoning which undermines their lifelong health and education. Prevention of lead exposure can be highly cost-effective and yet is grossly underfunded. We propose that the European Commission should pledge to end lead poisoning within the European Union,...

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...

On September 3, 2024, CGD President Emeritus Masood Ahmed delivered the keynote address at the Global Economic and Financial Stability Conference, in Seoul, South Korea.

This paper quantifies and evaluates China's bilateral, regional, and multilateral climate-related development finance from the Belt and Road Initiative's inception in 2013 until 2021, shedding light on its substantial but often opaque contributions.