Gah: Note: G20 Policies to Improve Development Prospects in Low-Income Countries
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Note: G20 Policies to Improve Development Prospects in Low-Income Countries
Blog: Time for an International Development Research Projects Association
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*perennial grain sorghum or millet
*parasite-resistant varietals
*decentralised genomic breeding service
*cheap(er) off-grid refrigerator
*cheap, passive, long-lasting nanocomposite water filter
*non-sewered sanitation systems
*multiplexed point-of-care diagnostics
*affordable, simple-dose, broad-spectrum helminth drug
*more effective malaria vaccine
*gene-drive-capable mosquito strain
*nitrogen-fixing locally suitable crops
The blog focuses in on technology suggesting a dedicated organization perhaps housed at the World Bank to finance research development and rollout of technologies particularly valuable to LICs. Kind of things it could work on: ...
In an earlier note, I suggested G20 could coordinate around a goal of Zero Low-Income Countries by 2040.
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In new note, I suggest policies G20 countries could introduce to help reach that goal covering trade, tax, banking, technology, migration and aid.
New note: G20 Policies to Improve Development Prospects in Low-Income Countries.
And blog: Time for an International Development Research Projects Association.
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Should have been clearer in thread this data is draft, looks to be imperfectly cleaned, likely suffers from under- and mis-reporting and misses a lot of what was going on at the local level.
Should have been clearer in thread this data is draft, looks to be imperfectly cleaned, likely suffers from under- and mis-reporting and misses a lot of what was going on at the local level.
I've written a entire draft of a book on this and then the FT just... tweeted it out?
Blog: Millions Lost Access to PEPFAR-Supported HIV Drugs During the US Foreign Assistance Pause
(Data available at the blog)
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And both testing as well as broader monitoring of PEPFAR’s impact will be crucial to understanding—and maximizing—the impact of the new global health compacts. As a first step, the full and final data on PEPFAR coverage in 2025 must be published.
This is a partial view, with unverified data, covering only a few measures, and ignoring potentially larger differences in some subgroups. The State Department needs to ensure access to services returns in full, everywhere.
Those numbers don't reflect a larger dropoff during the year as the foreign assistance pause and USAID shutdown were underway: the number of people receiving ARTs with PEPFAR support fell by 3.7 million in Q1 2025.
In 2025 PEPFAR supported 67 million people to receive testing and counselling, down from 84 million in 2024, and supported 100,000 fewer on antiretrovirals.
New blog: Millions Lost Access to PEPFAR-Supported HIV Drugs During the US Foreign Assistance Pause
The US State Department has collected data on the performance of PEPFAR in 2025, but is yet to officially release it. But some data has become available...
Linking TVET w/ labour mobility could improve quality & outcomes, while supporting employers & economic growth: the manifestation of “aid in the national interest.”
New @cgdev.org research w/ @irexintl.bsky.social outlines why donors should do this & how they can.
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"Borjas’s February 2026 working paper attempted to answer whether H-1B workers earn less than comparable native-born workers... [the] findings result from substantial data errors."
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“there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests” --sad to be living in a country which doesn't think humanitarian interests *are* national interests.
...Across the seven countries barred from U.S. aid, at least 6.2 million people are facing 'extreme or catastrophic conditions,' according to the UN."
The countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Somalia, and Zimbabwe.
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"This time, [USAID] programs that survived the initial purge precisely because they were judged to be lifesaving are slated for cancellation...the administration will soon end all of the humanitarian funding it is currently providing [to] seven African nations...
...but now the chairman of the Board of Peace appears to have much grander ambitions for the group.
I'm not sure the line that there's nothing to see here is sustainable.
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Interesting stuff from Sophie Edwards at Devex on Ajay Banga and the World Bank's role in the Board of Peace. As the World Bank communications team is at pains to point out, the Bank should be involved in Gaza reconstruction and the UN told the Bank to work with the Board to deliver that....
The Supreme Court reprieve comes too late for a lot of people who used work in garment factories in Lesotho in Haiti.
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The US says its G20 presidency will be about economic prosperity through better regulation, affordable and secure energy, and new technologies and innovations.
You know what would help with all three? Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) contract transparency.
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New Blog for CGD:
US Aid Cuts Fueled Conflict in Africa
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In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
Blog: The Global Collapse in Funding for the Food Insecure
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But especially at times of tight funding, ensuring assistance to the forgotten food crises across Africa, South Asia, and Central America is an urgent priority.
It is not that Palestine or Yemen should receive less funding—one look at the ongoing devastation and suffering in those countries suggests the reverse. And war zones are extremely complex—and much more expensive—environments to provide support.
