A New, Exhaustive Accounting of Global Health Funding (Science Magazine Blog)

A Science Magazine blog post quotes CGD senior fellow Mead Over on global health funding.

From the article:

". The researchers also analyze the relationship between funding to countries and their disease burden, with some surprising disconnects. “It does for health something that’s never been done: It takes all of the data from every source and checks it thoroughly for inconsistencies and looks for obvious missing values and tries to impute them,” says economist Mead Over of the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. “It’s something we very badly needed.” Yet Over also notes that “imputation”—which he says is basically guess work—also limits the accuracy of even this analysis, which he writes about on his blog."

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