We can all agree that it’s unconscionable that, in 2012, there are still 1.3 billion people without access to electricity. But there’s also that pesky problem of greenhouse gases cooking our planet. So, the big question is: should we burn more fossil fuels like natural gas to help bring power to those without?
In the middle of night, in a moment of indignation, I wrote a blog post on a report issued by Oxfam and a group of NGO partners on the health system in Ghana. I have since been duly chastised by Duncan Green and others.
Oxfam hasn’t let pesky little things like representative household surveys and impact evaluation results get in the way of their condemnation of Ghana’s health insurance program.
Last week, the leaders of the Group of 8 pledged 20 billion dollars in agricultural aid, with the purpose of boosting agricultural productivity -- especially in Africa. But will $20 billion over a three-year period help to feed many of the 1.02 billion people on earth who suffer from food insecurity?
My new working paper makes a foray into disputed territory by examining the case for public sector delivery of anti-retroviral therapy for AIDS in South Asia.
Today I had a flashback to the days when the global health community was divided into two bitterly opposed camps, the pro-public and pro-private.