Global Health blog: The US Should Recognize, Commit to and Budget for the Entitlements to Lifelong US-supported AIDS Treatment it Has Granted to More than 4 Million People Overseas
Updated: 2012-11-30 19:41:34
By Mead Over - Many currently believe that US domestic entitlements are too large, but disregard the fact that the PEPFAR program has created a new class of moral entitlements overseas – in the form of 4 million and counting people receiving US-supported life-sustaining AIDS treatment in low and middle income countries around the world. Of course, the approximately [...]
Due to Congressional inaction, the 2008 Farm Bill has expired without a new bill or extension to take its place. In the absence of a farm bill, numerous innovative programs that invest in sustainable agriculture systems are shut down and left without funding. This post is part of our 10-week blog series which will feature Read the Rest...
By Sarah Jane Staats - It had the feel of a stop along a farewell tour, but I don’t think the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) minded the visit–and praise–they got from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton when she stopped by MCC headquarters this week. Clinton applauded the MCC’s open, data-driven approach and commitment to learning while doing, saying it [...]
By Amanda Glassman - This is a joint post with Denizhan Duran. Secretary Clinton to Global Health community – Science and evidence must continue to guide our work. Around this time last year, world leaders called for “the beginning of the end of AIDS” and an “AIDS-free generation”, and committed to reaching the ambitious disease-specific targets for HIV/AIDS: the [...]
By Michael Clemens - Republicans in the US House of Representatives have proposed a step toward immigration reform. The bill would change who can receive an annual block of 55,000 US permanent resident visas. Currently those visas go to people from countries with relatively low rates of immigration to the US via a lottery system. The new bill would close [...]
By Todd Moss - This is a joint post with Stephanie Majerowicz. The Washington Post reported yesterday that India will, starting Jan 1st in 51 districts, pay cash directly into the accounts of poor families as it begins unraveling its convoluted web of food, fuel and other subsidies. India’s been toying with this idea for a while, so it’s [...]
By Michele de Nevers - This is a joint post with Lawrence MacDonald. What do the stalled climate talks getting underway in Doha, Qatar, this week and the partisan jousting in Washington over the impending “fiscal cliff” have in common? Not much if you get your information from the mainstream media, which has mostly either ignored the idea or poured [...]
As winter approaches and temperatures drop in the northern hemisphere, we’re more easily distracted from the effects of climate change in our planet’s colder regions. But this should be sobering: The United Nations Environment Programme released a report today about how the thawing of permafrost will cause additional climate change across the globe, as early as 2100.
read more
By Kimberly Ann Elliott - This piece originally appeared in the Huffington Post on November 27, 2012. This is a joint post with Owen Barder. With relentlessly bad news out of Syria, the search continues for what the world can do to put pressure on Assad’s regime and to lay the groundwork for a future, legitimate Syrian government. The case [...]
Due to Congressional inaction, the 2008 Farm Bill has expired without a new bill or extension to take its place. In the absence of a farm bill, numerous innovative programs that invest in sustainable agriculture systems are shut down and left without mandatory funding. This is the eighth post in our 10-week “What’s at Stake?” Read the Rest...
By Nancy Birdsall - This is a joint post with Christian Meyer. For global producers of consumer products, the rise of a middle class in India is great news. Dunkin’ Donuts, Starbucks, and IKEA have all recently announced they will move into the Indian market. The Swedish furniture maker plans to invest up to €1.5 billion over the next [...]
Fox News just reported on the change in the estate tax on January 1st will impact farmers and ranchers. To watch the video: CLICK HERE
By Nancy Birdsall - I was in Delhi recently for the launch of CGD’s India Initiative. Along with CGD colleagues Lant Pritchett and Arvind Subramanian, I participated in a session hosted by Pratap Mehta of the Centre for Policy Research and moderated by Minister Jairam Ramesh (Minister of Rural Development, former Minister of Energy and Environment). Arvind blogged about [...]
Due to Congressional inaction, the 2008 Farm Bill has expired without a new bill or extension to take its place. In the absence of a farm bill, numerous innovative programs that invest in sustainable agriculture systems are shut down and left without funding. This post is part of our 10-week blog series which will feature Read the Rest...
By Amanda Glassman - This is a joint post with Denizhan Duran. As governments across the world expand population access to health care, they are feeling the pressure of rising costs. According to the IMF, emerging economies will spend an additional 1.5 percentage points of GDP on health care over the next 20 years, most of which will come [...]
By William Savedoff - In my first blog on recently published impact evaluations by the MCC, I argued that MCC has established a new standard for systematic learning about development programs. In my second blog, I addressed questions related to the design and use of impact evaluations. In this blog, I’m asking what the MCC evaluations tell us about [...]