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Blog Post
September 30, 2019
With so many obstacles to providing these critical services, it is worth asking why countries produce Common Goods for Health at all? How do countries ever reach the point where they are willing to tax themselves to invest in services that are in the public interest? Services that are invisible...
WORKING PAPERS
October 18, 2017
We analyzed a large-scale municipal water disinfection program in Mexico in 1991 that rapidly increased access to chlorinated water. Our results suggest that childhood diarrheal disease mortality in Mexico would have declined by 86 percent if all municipalities had good quality infrastructure—...
Blog Post
August 04, 2016
I’ve been working on the idea of Cash on Delivery (COD) for some years under the hypothesis that if we could define good outcome indicators, someone would step forward to buy them. So what would happen if an organization came forward with a plan to supply a verified outcome in r...
Blog Post
March 15, 2012
The recently released report by UNICEF and WHO on Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation brought both good and bad news. The good news is that the world has ostensibly ‘reached’ part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on drinking water: 88 percent of the world's population no...