The Trump Administration and Development

CGD experts are closely monitoring what the change in leadership in the United States portends for US development policy. Watch this space for detailed analysis of the new administration’s actions.

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Are Other Countries to Blame for High US Drug Prices?
Cassandra Nemzoff
and
Kalipso Chalkidou
November 13, 2018
Back in February, the US Council of Economic Advisers issued a white paper on drug pricing implying that other rich countries should stop “free riding” off American innovation by negotiating drug prices to unfairly low levels after the US fronts the research and development cos...
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When the US Opposes Evidence-Based Efforts to Promote Breastfeeding, What Comes Next? Three Recommendations for Policymakers to Move Forward
Cindy Huang
and
Joan Lombardi
July 13, 2018
“An important dimension of the controversy is the role of formula companies in putting profit over the wellbeing of babies,” write Cindy Huang and Joan Lombardi.
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Trump’s Protectionist Threat to Latin America
Laura Alfaro et al.
July 10, 2018
The economic impacts of Donald Trump’s trade dispute with China have so far been limited, but the countries of Latin America are nonetheless paying an early price. For a region where many economies are already constrained by weakened fiscal positions, the additional uncertainty caused by risin...
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Global Health Security in the Trump Era: Time to Worry?
Jeremy Konyndyk
May 17, 2018
Is it time to ring the alarm bell on a declining US commitment to global health security? For most of the past year, I would have said no. But after the last few weeks, I’m starting to think so. And the simultaneous news of a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo underscores the sta...
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Trump’s Treasury Delivers at the World Bank: More Capital for Climate, Solid Policy Framework
Scott Morris
April 20, 2018
Not only is the Trump administration supporting a $7.5 billion capital increase for the IBRD (and at that, one that is 50 percent larger than the capital increase supported by the Obama administration in 2010), it has also signed on to a policy framework for the new money that makes a good deal of s...
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The Paris Club: Will the United States Be Asked to Leave?
John Hurley
April 03, 2018
International actors have criticized decisions by the Trump administration to reject the Paris Climate Accord, abandon the Trans Pacific Partnership, and withdraw from a United Nations declaration intended to protect the rights of migrants. However, there is one international body, the Par...
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Will Trump’s Big Aid Cuts Hurt Chances for Reform?
Erin Collinson
February 16, 2018
The Trump administration delivered its FY 2019 budget request to Capitol Hill this week. Containing deep cuts to the international affairs budget, it looks a lot like a repeat of the FY 2018 request. And with a 30 percent reduction in topline spending, few programs were spared. Meanwhile, ...