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Payouts for Perils: How Insurance Can Radically Improve Emergency Aid
Theodore Talbot et al.
April 07, 2017
Millions of people face hazards like cyclones and drought every day. International aid to deal with disasters after they strike is generous, but it is unpredictable and fragmented, and it often fails to arrive when it would do the most good. We must stop treating disasters like surprises. Matching f...
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Benefits and Universal Health Coverage: What Public Money Can Buy Given Budget Realities
Amanda Glassman
March 23, 2017
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CGD’s Panel at the #HLM2 in Nairobi: Can Insurance Fix Emergency and Humanitarian Aid?
Theodore Talbot
and
Owen Barder
December 13, 2016
Can insurance really make emergency aid better, faster, and fairer? That was the question we posed to the impressive panel that we convened last week in Nairobi at the second high level meetings of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation. The panel broug...
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How to Help Haiti in the Aftermath of Hurricane Matthew
Matt Juden
and
Vijaya Ramachandran
October 07, 2016
In Haiti, already the poorest country in the western hemisphere, Hurricane Matthew’s devastation is still being calculated. We know that hundreds of people have died, and the damage to Haiti’s already-fragile infrastructure is immense. So what can people in rich countries do to...