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May 31, 2024
The latest round of UNFCCC climate negotiations begins next week in Bonn. Climate finance—and in particular who should pay—remains a hotly contested topic as negotiators strive to make progress on the New Collective Quantified Goal (to replace the current $100 billion target) by COP29 in November 20...
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April 09, 2024
It's spring in DC, which means it's time once again for the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings. Finance ministers, central bank governors, and other top officials from around the world gather to discuss the state of the world economy and the international financial architecture, and CGD's researchers ar...
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March 13, 2024
When world leaders gather in September for this year’s UN General Assembly, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will be on the agenda. For people like me who care passionately about this issue, this is a welcome opportunity to address a global problem with a global solution. Ahead of September, we need t...
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March 12, 2024
There is no way that poverty can be fully tackled without policies designed to address the multiple disadvantages faced by people due to the combination of ascribed attributes including gender, age, race, ethnicity, disability, migration status, and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). And...
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February 22, 2024
The process of discovering, producing, buying, and consuming antibiotics is riddled with market and government failures. To solve antibiotic resistance, it’s not enough to solve just some of these. If we fix the market failures that reduce the number of new antibiotics that are discovered, but not t...
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November 30, 2023
The latest climate COP, or “Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,” got underway today in Dubai. It will be attended by thousands of delegates from governments, the private sector, media, and civil society, with two hectic weeks of events and negotiat...