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Language English USAID Announces Eight-Year Strategy to End TuberculosisThursday, October 27, 2022

Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) released its Global Tuberculosis (TB) Strategy, 2023-2030, which aims to achieve USAID’s shared vision of a TB-free world and the TB Sustainable Development Goal. As the world’s largest bilateral donor leading the fight to end TB,…

This paper investigates the role of digitialization in improving economic resilience. Using balance sheet data from 24, 000 firms in 75 countries, and a difference-in-differences approach, we find that firms in industries that are more digitalized experience lower revenue losses following recessions. Early data since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic suggest an even larger effect during the…

Language English Administrator Samantha Power’s Call with UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Development Minister Andrew MitchellThursday, October 27, 2022

Today, Administrator Samantha Power spoke with Andrew Mitchell, the newly appointed Minister of State for Development in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom (UK).

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Language Undefined United States Providing Additional $30 Million in Response to Flooding in Pakistan, Bringing Support to $97 MillionThursday, October 27, 2022

The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $30 million in humanitarian assistance to support the people affected by severe flooding in Pakistan. This new funding…

Language Undefined Additional Humanitarian Funding for Flood Response in PakistanThursday, October 27, 2022

Last month, I traveled to Pakistan where melted glaciers and unprecedented monsoon rains flooded one third of the country. To fly over the devastation was to witness a sunken world. Three hundred kilometers from the nearest ocean, we saw mainly water, punctuated intermittently by…