Vijaya Ramachandran
Senior Fellow
Health Coverage: What's In, What's Out?
Providing universal health coverage requires tough tradeoffs. A new CGD book examines how an explicit health benefits package can help donors and policymakers navigate technical and ethical questions.
GPE/Deepa Srikantaiah
Why Aren't We Feeding Hungry Schoolkids?
On World Food Day, Justin Sandefur addressed counterarguments to free and universal school feeding programs, and found that the benefits greatly outweigh the costs.
Kwabena Akuamoah-Boateng
Manufacturing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Will African countries be able to break into the global manufacturing industry? A new CGD paper finds that high labor costs in most African countries make this difficult—except in Ethiopia.
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