Value for Money

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Why Value-Based Pricing and Competitive Markets Beat “Fair Pricing” On Access and Equity
April 14, 2020
If we want to make sure everyone can get quality products without financial burden, here’s why we think value-based pricing and competitive markets beat the “fair pricing” approach.
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Results vs. Claims: Strengthening the UK’s Aid Watchdog
July 17, 2019
ICAI has just entered its third four-year phase. ICAI is a major asset in ensuring aid is well-spent. Having reviewed ICAI’s prior work, we think ICAI could should focus more on “results claims”—that is, whether the estimates of expected benefits that underpin decision-making...
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Are Other Countries to Blame for High US Drug Prices?
November 13, 2018
Back in February, the US Council of Economic Advisers issued a white paper on drug pricing implying that other rich countries should stop “free riding” off American innovation by negotiating drug prices to unfairly low levels after the US fronts the research and development cos...
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Global Health Development Value Frameworks: Are We Calculating Well and Wisely?
June 11, 2018
The last several years have seen the development of many decision-support tools (“value frameworks”) for supporting policy and investment decisions. These tools make use of lots of numbers representing factors of undoubted importance in decision making, and they synthesise this informati...
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How to Allocate UK Official Development Assistance
June 08, 2018
The UK Parliament published its review of UK ODA earlier this week. The report is clear that some departments have spent aid badly and recommends the Secretary of State for International Development should “have ultimate responsibility for ODA spent across Government.” I propos...
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More Health for The Money: How to Make UHC a Reality for Everyone, Everywhere
April 05, 2018
We can make UHC happen in our lifetime by targeting investments and incentives on the highest impact interventions among the most affected populations in developing countries.
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The Need for New Approaches to Global Health Aid Allocation
February 20, 2018
Aid allocation has been a topic of much investigation across several fields. In particular, many studies have looked at the patterns of development assistance for health (DAH). For example, a study by Hanlon and colleagues found that regional variations in DAH country allocations were only...