Amanda Glassman

Poland, Malaysia, and Turkey have entered the ranks of developed nations. The Dominican Republic is almost there. Yes, countries can still get rich in this day and age. noahpinion.blog/p/developing-c…

Cervical cancer is being defeated thanks to two things: Pap smears and the Gardasil vaccine. HPV vaccination is so effective that many countries will have practically eliminated cervical cancer in the next two decades. Here's why🧵

"Children with longer exposure to iodized salt in utero and infancy during the 1990s went on to have lower mortality and higher scores." researchsquare.com/article/rs-569… @KibromTafere on new work from Ethiopia. #ABCDE2025

Gracias @igoldfajn y todo el equipo de @el_bid por el continuo apoyo a las políticas de reforma de Argentina! 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

¡Avanzamos juntos! Seguimos apoyando a 🇦🇷 con reformas para fortalecer su sostenibilidad fiscal, mejorar el clima de negocios y aumentar la competitividad. Lean el comunicado: bit.ly/45go4Xf

🚀 FfD4 may be behind us, but the momentum and the tools remain. During our events, @FinanceinCommon and @IDFC_Network presented 5 practical resources designed to support and empower PDBs in their missions. 👉 Explore each document by clicking directly on the slides.

Rolling back Mexico's big conditional cash transfer program resulted in "reduced enrollment and raised employment in high-school-aged boys by 12 and 8 percentage points". tomvogl.github.io/marquez_parker… Tom Vogl at #ABCDE2025

Cash transfers do a lot, but they don't do all things. Little evidence of second-generation impacts from Nicaragua. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Cash transfers in many low- and middle-income countries are very small! Across 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries, transfers represent only one-third of the poverty gap (i.e., what it would take to get a household out of poverty). publications.iadb.org/en/cash-transf…

Poverty fell dramatically in the last half-century, but often not for the reasons we think. econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/pape… Tom Vogl on this at #ABCDE2025

🪙🚨 El Perú tiene la tasa de inflación más baja no solo de la región, sino incluso que Estados Unidos, el Reino Unido, Japón y la Unión Europea. Un nivel que es envidiable para el resto de los países del mundo, que ha llevado a reconocer, en el ámbito internacional, el trabajo…

🧠💙 ¡Una cirugía que marca historia en EsSalud! 🙌 Por primera vez, se realizó un bypass cerebral para tratar un aneurisma y fue todo un éxito. 👉 Dale play y conoce esta historia de precisión, vocación y esperanza.

“Because he’s too young for the measles vaccine, Hal needed emergency shots of immunoglobulin, or IG, an antibody that helps the immune system fight off infections… Her family’s worry and frustration are playing out in households nationwide” nbcnews.com/health/health-…

El Directorio de @el_BID aprobó una nueva hoja de ruta para nuestro trabajo en Argentina. La Estrategia País 2025–2028, elaborada junto con el Gobierno nacional, incluye un paquete de US $10 mil millones y busca apoyar el desarrollo económico liderado por el sector privado,…

Just introduced the Dignity Act of 2025. This new and improved version is the most significant immigration reform bill in a generation, with 20+ original bipartisan cosponsors. See more below: salazar.house.gov/media/press-re…

Big school attainment and learning gains from expanding the length of the school day in Fortaleza, Brazil! dropbox.com/scl/fi/dgsyes7… by @restradamtz et al.

Childhood vaccinations have transformative lifelong benefits Last month on VoxDev w/ Richard Daramola (@SCFnow), Md Shahadath Hossain (@UH_Econ), Harounan Kazianga (@SpearsBusiness) & Karim Nchare (@VanderbiltEcon): voxdev.org/topic/health/c…

A pilot programme in Nigeria helped students make two years’ worth of progress in six weeks economist.com/graphic-detail…

Vaccine roll-outs cut deaths by 60% bbc.com/news/articles/…

Very few programs have (1) multiple, rigorous evaluations (2) showing strong and consistent results (3) robust across locations and providers (4) with long term follow-up (5) and can broadly scale. That's why we @Arnold_Ventures are so excited about CUNY-ASAP, a program of…