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Blog Post
December 19, 2022
About 63 percent of Nigeria’s population is multidimensionally poor, and Nigeria’s debt service-to-revenue ratio at the federal government level reached 83 percent during the first eight months of 2022. In short, the country is facing significant fiscal-macroeconomic challenges, with implications fo...
CGD NOTES
December 19, 2022
The next administration in Nigeria will face significant fiscal-macroeconomic challenges. This note focuses on adopting a more integrated and comprehensive framework for the conduct of fiscal policy, with emphasis on improving domestic resource mobilization, enhancing expenditure efficiency, and exp...
CGD NOTES
December 14, 2022
Ensuring rapid and equitable access to effective oral COVID-19 therapies is essential to reducing health disparities from COVID-19 and building a better response system for future epidemics and pandemics. A multipronged strategy for medical countermeasures must include antivirals, monoclonal antibod...
Blog Post
December 14, 2022
It’s clear that COVID-19 oral antivirals are effective, and recent deals have made them even cheaper for African countries. But should these countries be investing in these medicines? Or would spending on alternative health services be better value for money? Unfortunately, there is very little avai...
Blog Post
December 14, 2022
Four new CGD pieces, released today, examine the current state of play on COVID-19 oral antivirals. Our analyses provide a deep-dive in key cross-cutting areas—demand, voluntary licensing deals for generic supply, and deployment—and offer policy actions for 2023 and beyond.
CGD NOTES
December 13, 2022
The unprecedented turnout at rallies across Pakistan protesting corruption and poor job prospects underscores the frustration among the rapidly growing middle class with governance failures. Pakistan’s economic growth exceeded India’s for over four decades after its independence in 1947, but since t...
Blog Post
December 02, 2022
An important debate is taking place in Europe right now on how to fund new antimicrobials. For months it has been speculated that the European Union may move towards implementing transferable exclusivity vouchers (TEVs). In response, 14 Member States wrote to the European Commission outlining why th...
Blog Post
November 15, 2022
Congress has excellent legislation on the docket that would protect American citizens, yield huge returns, and create a safer, healthier world. We encourage the US Congress to urgently finance and authorize the PASTEUR Act, leveraging American ingenuity to boost our shared health future.
Blog Post
November 07, 2022
What’s the latest in international economic development research? Last weekend was the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference, often called NEUDC. With more than 135 papers presented (and almost all of them available for download), it’s a great way to see recent trends in t...