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CGD in the News
January 05, 2015
And when you think about it, "developing countries" are quite developed in some respects. In countries where government safety nets are practically nonexistent, people step forward to help out, says Mead Over, who studies the economics of health interventions at the Center for Global Devel...
CGD in the News
December 02, 2014
"Of the 35 million people who are currently infected with HIV, as mentioned in your previous segment, the vast majority of those live in extremely poor countries where the per capita income is less than $1,000."
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"Typically the individual with AIDS will have to have to spend gre...
CGD in the News
October 27, 2014
Mead Over: I think that so far, I have not noticed that the funding itself is constrained. I think the constraint has been the sheer difficulty of building out the Ebola treatment centers, and particularly staffing them.
What I still don't understand is whether the international community has a...
CGD in the News
October 23, 2014
“The epidemic is moving faster than we economists can work,” said a blog last week by World Bank senior economist David Evans and Center for Global Development senior fellow Mead Over.
“The latest information suggests that even the World Bank’s ‘High Ebola’ scena...