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CGD NOTES
November 07, 2022
The assignment is clear. During this year’s Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank, shareholders instructed the World Bank to develop a work program for its own evolution (“to identify gaps in the Bank’s current institutional and operational framework…”) by the end of the year. Secretary Yellen l...
Blog Post
October 31, 2022
Many premature deaths from non-communicable diseases can be prevented if countries enact forceful measures to reduce the risk of their citizens falling prey to these diseases. Making it more expensive to consume tobacco, health-harming alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages is key to governments ach...
Oct
24
2022
9:30—11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)/ 1:30 -3:00pm GMT/ 2:30 – 4:00pm British Summer Time (BST)
October 18, 2022
COVID-19 and related economic shocks have had important but heterogeneous impact across the Latin American and Caribbean region, which also faces elevated climate risks, increasing rates of poverty, declining life expectancy in some countries, and unprecedented rates of crime and violence. The Inter...
Multimedia
October 14, 2022
In this video, senior policymakers from around the world, who gathered for CGD’s Development Leaders Conference in September in Paris, discuss the critical need for development agencies and development finance institutions to work together to tackle these increasingly complex - and global - issues. ...
Blog Post
October 13, 2022
On this episode of Pandemic Proof, Dr. Ayoade Alakija, the World Health Organization’s Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) and co-chair of the African Union’s African Vaccine Delivery Alliance, joins Javier Guzman to discuss global cooperation during health emergencies...
Oct
15
2022
11:00—12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/ 3:00 - 4:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/ 4:00 - 5:00pm British Summer Time (BST)
October 11, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic, the escalating climate and biodiversity crisis, and rising food insecurity have demonstrated the critical role the World Bank plays in protecting global public goods and responding to global challenges. In October 2021, CGD co-hosted an official side event on the role of the W...