There is a ready supply of explanations on offer at Westminster

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Nan Ransohoff suggests AI-related wealth may add $37 to $100 billion per year in philanthropic spending in the near future. This blog suggest that support for a maximum vaccination strategy focused on...

The World Bank lending portfolio currently includes over $3 billion for 81 active water supply projects across low- and middle-income countries. Not one project includes lead testing in drinking…

The United States government spends close to $200 billion annually on research and development. Every dollar counts, as innovation is crucial to solving pressing social problems and the ultimate driver of economic growth.

By Sarrin Chethik, Siddhartha Haria, and Christopher Snyder The United States government spends close to $200 billion annually on research and development. Every dollar counts, as innovation is crucia...

Aspirin prevents heart attacks, and good policy could give other generic drugs a second life.

The Foreign Secretary recently set out how the UK plans to cut aid to 0.23 percent of GNI (this figure excludes domestic refugee costs). Last year, we called for the radical simplification of aid as a...

The G20 High Level Independent Panel sets minimum annual benchmarks for pandemic financing and urges governments to take action by or before the September

Masyita Crystallin & Rachel Glennerster call on multilateral development banks to commit now to providing at-risk funding for bets on vaccines.

Vaccines are among the most impactful global health innovations. They drive major declines in child mortality and prevent an estimated 3.5 to 5 million deaths every year. The golden age of vaccine dev...

Pull mechanisms, like advance market commitments (AMCs) and prizes, that pay for results are having a moment. After the landmark pneumococcal AMC helped accelerate access to lifesaving vaccines, the m...

Hundreds of millions of dollars are typically spent developing a new vaccine. You would assume that by the time the vaccine receives approval, we would know precisely the right dosing regimen: how muc...

A recent PowerPoint presentation presents the outline for the institutional structure of “The WBG Knowledge Bank.” But a knowledge bank owes it to its stakeholders impartial and transparent considerat...

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Abstract. Adolescent girls across low-income countries face disadvantages stemming from limited agency over their bodies and barriers to investing in their

Founder of Transition, the most daring and important literary and political journal of Africa’s 1960s.

This blog post is the first in a series introducing a new working group convened by CGD and the Market Shaping Accelerator (MSA) on developing an advance market commitment (AMC) for a rapid diagnostic...

This blog post is the first in a series introducing a new working group convened by CGD and the Market Shaping Accelerator (MSA) on developing an advance market commitment (AMC) for a rapid diagnostic...

This blog post is the first in a series introducing a new working group convened by CGD and the Market Shaping Accelerator (MSA) on developing an advance market commitment (AMC) for a rapid diagnostic...

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Despite what administration officials have claimed about preserving life-saving work, many of the programs delivering interventions known to save the most lives per dollar spent have not received the ...

We can keep saving lives when foreign aid is dying.