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Saeed Ahmad/Xinhua/Alamy Live News The CIA’s efforts to capture Osama bin Laden via a fake vaccination drive in Pakistan led to a rise in vaccine hesitancy in the years after the scheme was revealed. In 2011, it was reported that the CIA had organised a fake vaccination drive in Abbottabad, Pakistan, reportedly administering hepatitis B vaccines to babies, while obtaining DNA samples to compare with that of bin Laden’s sister, who died in the US the year before. The CIA was attempting to find a child who was related to bin Laden, in an effort to pin down his whereabouts.

Members of the newly constituted Economic Advisory Council comment on key policy issues facing the country

Sumona Gupta is a student and organizer based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. An air of uncertainty hung above the United States on November 3, 2020—no one knew how the presidential election would play out, how long it would take to decide, when the backlash against the winner would begin, or if it would turn into violence. One thing was relatively certain, though: California would vote overwhelmingly for Joe Biden. Indeed, Biden won the state with 64.6 percent of the vote, a historically large margin. 1 However, there were also several propositions on the 2020 California ballot, the results of whi...

Some of our favorite development papers of 2020 Development Impact will now be on break over the next couple of weeks for the holidays, resuming in early January. As we have done previously (2018,2017), we will turn to the holidays with a gift to you of some of our favorite development papers that we came across this year. This year we thought we’d focus on papers related to impact evaluation or measurement produced by some of our colleagues at the World Bank. ·       (Jules Gazeaud, Eric Mvukiyehe and Olivier Sterck): This paper is important for the debate of whether fostering mor...