Center for Global Development
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Sep 16, 2026
Leanda ByrneCORRESPONDENT
That makes it a difficult business proposition.
Leanda ByrneCORRESPONDENT
Rachel Glennerster is president of the Center for Global Development.
Michele PascarellaGUEST
These vaccines are incredibly valuable to society but not very profitable for companies.
Michele PascarellaGUEST
First, most people who will benefit from the Ebola vaccine will never actually take it.
Liana ByrneCORRESPONDENT
That makes it a difficult business proposition.
Liana ByrneCORRESPONDENT
Rachel Glennerster is president of the Centre for Global Development.
Rachel GlennersterGUEST
These vaccines are incredibly valuable to society, but not very profitable for companies.
Rachel GlennersterGUEST
First, most people who will benefit from the Ebola vaccine will never actually take it.
Alexia LatortueGUEST
So the conversation just starts somewhere differently.
Alexia LatortueGUEST
And then finally, the third plank of sort of the heart of the governance of the coalition are our two co-host institutions, a think tank based in Accra, Ghana, the African Centre for Economic Transformation, and a think tank based in Washington, DC, the Center for Global Development.
Alexia LatortueGUEST
And so that group secretariat, the heart of the decision-making with the commissioners and co-chairs, and the two co-host institutions are the governance.
Alexia LatortueGUEST
And then we have layers and layers and concentric circles of partners.
Leanna ByrneCORRESPONDENT
That makes it a difficult business proposition.
Leanna ByrneCORRESPONDENT
Rachel Glenister is president of the Centre for Global Development.
Leanna ByrneCORRESPONDENT
These
Rachel GlenisterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
vaccines are incredibly valuable to society, but not very profitable for companies to develop.
Katie OthHOST
But it's interesting to see that in the reauthorization, Congress actually did insert language that called for more transparency and more public data.
Katie OthHOST
And I know CGD, the Center for Global Development, has done a bunch of good analysis on this.
Katie OthHOST
We're going to be launching a DFC tracker where we start to look at the investments as they come out.
Katie OthHOST
And so it's great that there are people sort of focused on on this analysis.
Leanna ByrneHOST
Emery Makumano there.
Leanna ByrneHOST
According to the Center for Global Development, a think tank which works to reduce poverty, the rule of thumb for developing a new vaccine is a cost of around one billion dollars.
Leanna ByrneHOST
But that development is accelerated when there is a commercial incentive to get a vaccine over the line.
Leanna ByrneHOST
For Ebola, that hasn't been there so far.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
But the authority got inflated.
DanielHOST
There's a line from the Center for Global Development in 2019.
DanielHOST
Should the randomistas continue to rule? The question
Herman PoppleberryHOST
itself is the critique.
LauraUNKNOWN
I hope that's OK.
LauraUNKNOWN
So I'm Laura, and I work for the Center for Global Development.
LauraUNKNOWN
So the EU current development focuses on win-win economic partnership,
Gilad LevyMODERATOR
yet beneath the surface geopolitical and dare I say extractive
Ian MastersHOST
Then finally we'll investigate the 100 billion dollar oil deal Trump has struck with the illegitimate leader of Venezuela which is supposed to replenish America's strategic reserves in a partnership with a shady Venezuelan businessman accused of money laundering and black market oil sales.
Ian MastersHOST
Joining us is Javier Careles, a professor of political science at Amherst College, who serves on the editorial board of Latin American Politics and Society and Americas Quarterly, and has also been a consultant for the United Nations, the Center for Global Development, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ian MastersHOST
The author of Dragon in the Tropics, Hugo Chavez, and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela, and most recently, Autocracy Rising, How Venezuela Transitions to Authoritarianism.
Ian MastersHOST
He has an article at Foreign Affairs, Venezuela Needs Regime Change, The Narrow Path to a Democratic Transition.
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Ian MastersHOST
Welcome back.
Ian MastersHOST
I'm Ian Masters, and this is Background Briefing, available 24-7 at backgroundbriefing.org. And joining us now is Javier Corrales, who's a professor of political science at Amherst College, who serves on the editorial board of the Latin American Politics and Society and America's Quarterly.
Ian MastersHOST
And he's also been a consultant to the United Nations, the Center for Global Development, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ian MastersHOST
He's the author of Dragon in the Tropics, Hugo Chavez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela, and most recently, Autocracy Rising, How Venezuela Transitioned to Authoritarianism.