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Archive for April, 2011Not Too Late to Fix U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan: Molly Kinder and Wren ElhaiApril 25, 2011Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Poverty Tags: Aid, Development, Molly Kinder, Pakistan, Wren Elhai
I have two guests on the show this week, senior policy analyst Molly Kinder and research and communications assistant Wren Elhai. Molly and Wren have been working closely with CGD president Nancy Birdsall to make sense of the U.S. development strategy in Pakistan and to suggest ways that it could be more effective. After more than a year of Washington-based study and consultations, the three of them recently visited Pakistan to get feedback on their draft recommendations ahead of the release of their final report (for background on the project and a series of open letters, see here). Podcast: Play in new window | Download 1 Comment »The Climate Change Vulnerability Index: David WheelerApril 18, 2011Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Climate Change, Global Development Tags: Climate Change, Climate Vulnerability Index, David Wheeler
On this Wonkcast, I’m joined by David Wheeler, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, who created an index for determining which countries should be prioritized when the money starts to flow. His new paper, “Quantifying Vulnerability to Climate Change: Implications for Adaptation Assistance”, provides an index for comparison of cross-country vulnerability to some of the most extreme climate threats. An accompanying map makes it easy to see which countries will be hit hardest. Podcast: Play in new window | Download 3 Comments »Combating Drug Resistance: Rachel NugentApril 4, 2011Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Global Development, Global Health Policy Tags: antimicrobial resistance, Drug resistance, Rachel Nugent, UNFPA, WHO
We begin with some scary stuff—the continued emergence of “superbugs” that doctors don’t like to talk about, such as hospital-bred pathogens that have become immune to antibiotics, drug resistant malaria, and my favorite nightmare, drug resistant TB, which the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates could infect two million people around the globe by 2015. Podcast: Play in new window | Download 1 Comment »
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The United States has committed $1.5 billion per year over five years in an effort to support development in Pakistan, a fragile, nuclear-armed state of almost 190 million people that is in the frontline of the struggle against Islamic extremism. So, how’s that working out?
Rapid climate change is upon us, and governments, multilateral organizations, and development agencies are preparing to dole out billions of dollars in adaptation assistance. Nevertheless, little research has gone into calculating which countries are most vulnerable to global warming.
Drug resistance, a neglected but increasingly urgent problem, receives some much-needed attention this week as the focus of this year’s World Health Day, also dubbed Antimicrobial Resistance Day, on Thursday, April 7. I invited 
