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WORKING PAPER
January 29, 2025
This study estimates the global inpatient healthcare costs attributable to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and projects future expenditures across different scenarios. It finds that AMR accounts for 25.4 million hospital admissions annually, resulting in $66.4 billion in excess healthcare costs, with...
WORKING PAPER
January 29, 2025
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major global challenge, affecting both human health and economies. This research models the potential impacts of AMR on global GDP and various sectors, showing that while better treatment and combined interventions can boost economic growth, accelerated resista...
CGD NOTE
January 24, 2025
Internal displacement—that is the forced movement of people within the country they live in—is at crisis levels. There were 46.9 million internal displacements, or movements, recorded during 2023, across 151 countries. While some of these movements were a result of preemptive evacuation ahead of a d...
POLICY PAPER
January 23, 2025
For official bilateral development agencies, the realities of providing effective development cooperation are increasingly complex, as competing demands and changing international and domestic contexts are raising fundamental questions around what it means to be an effective agency. This paper explo...
REPORT
January 21, 2025
Official development assistance (ODA) is at a crossroads, and reform is needed to balance the original mission of poverty reduction with the growing demands of global challenges such as climate change. While there is broad agreement on the need to clarify ODA’s purpose, modernise its governance fram...
CGD NOTE
January 15, 2025
Some miracles resist forgetting. They continue to hold out hope for believers. The East Asian Miracle that apparently blessed four economies with a growth bonanza in the last quarter of the twentieth century, endures because a legion of countries believe that supernatural events can be made to recur...
WORKING PAPER
December 18, 2024
Facing major fiscal and balance-of-payments headwinds, Ghana embarked on a comprehensive restructuring of its sovereign debt in December 2022.It was assessed that to return to sustainability, Ghana’s public debt should decline from nearly 90 percent of GDP to 55 percent of GDP with significant debt ...
