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Blog Post
March 31, 2022
The effort to recycle unneeded SDRs from wealthy countries to poor countries was dealt a major setback in an omnibus spending deal recently passed by the US Congress. The final measure failed to include language authorizing the US Treasury to recycle 15 billion SDRs, worth about $21 billion, to the ...
Mar
24
2022
12:00—2:15 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
March 18, 2022
The rise of private schools implies that many children in low-income countries now live in villages and towns with substantial school choice. The success of any policy—from vouchers to school consolidation—will therefore depend on what this school choice entails and how education markets function.
Blog Post
March 18, 2022
Nearly six months into the fiscal year, Congress finally delivered an FY22 spending bill last week. But even after stalled negotiations prompted worries that lawmakers would be unable to reach a deal at all, the final measure is something of a disappointment—failing to deliver sufficient resources t...
Mar
23
2022
11:00—12:15 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
March 15, 2022
Well-functioning supply chains to deliver medicines, vaccines, and other health products are the backbone of the health system. Continued challenges in the financing, procurement, and distribution of health products lead to frequent stockouts at health clinics, putting treatment programs at risk and...
WORKING PAPERS
January 28, 2022
Providing patients with high-quality essential medicines requires a well-functioning procurement, distribution, and regulatory system. However, in many low- and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs), public sector supply chain performance is far from optimal, resulting in frequent stockouts at healt...
Blog Post
January 20, 2022
Last October we asked our readers to weigh in on promising opportunities for pull mechanisms to help drive high-value global health innovation. This blog highlights our interim findings, with great gratitude to the 25+ individuals and groups who took the time for a conversation.
WORKING PAPERS
December 16, 2021
How should governments and donors engage with the growing private sector in education in developing countries? Enrolment in private schools now exceeds 50 percent at the primary level in many major urban centres across Africa and Asia. Whilst the majority of these schools are small and independently...
Nov
30
2021
9:00—10:15 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
November 17, 2021
Ineffective and inefficient registration processes impede access to lifesaving, quality-assured essential medicines. As a result of inadequate legal provisions, limited capacity within National Regulatory Authorities, and long and unpredictable registration processes as well as low profit margins an...
Nov
19
2021
9:00—10:15 AM Eastern time (US and Canada)
November 12, 2021
As many countries move towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), there are many questions about whether to include (and if so, how?) disease programmatic areas that are heavily supported by external funding in health benefits packages (HBPs)