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Doctors Warn that Subsidies May Be Harmful to Your Health

William D. Savedoff et al.
April 16, 2025
Medical doctors regularly warn their patients about unhealthy foods and behaviors. But who is going to warn the public about unhealthy public policies and government spending? The quick answer is that other doctors (the kind with PhDs not MDs), along with qualified policy analysts of all kinds, can...
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Unhealthy Subsidies: How Much Do Taxpayers Contribute to Promote Disease?

William D. Savedoff et al.
April 16, 2025
Health taxes are a well-known fiscal measure for discouraging consumption of unhealthy products like tobacco, alcohol, and sugary beverages. Less well known are opportunities to eliminate government subsidies. This paper is an inquiry into subsidies for tobacco, alcohol, and sugary beverages, produc...
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2025: A Crucial Year for Scaling Up Health Taxes

Pete Baker et al.
October 21, 2024
What if there was a policy that could both save lives and raise revenue to strengthen health systems and other social sectors? The high-level Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health, co-chaired by Mike Bloomberg, Mia Amor Mottley, and Larry Summers, of which CGD is secretariat, found that raising hea...
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Sugar, Rum, and Tobacco: Domestic Resource Mobilization for Low-Income Countries through Excise Taxes

William D. Savedoff
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Ruth Lopert
January 13, 2020
The paper provides a comprehensive overview of issues relevant to using health taxes to raise revenues in low-income countries. The paper argues that in low-income countries, health taxes can raise enough revenue to make them worthwhile and that health taxes may be better candidates for mobilizing d...
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Money Can’t Buy You “Country Ownership”

William Savedoff
October 15, 2019
Efforts to make aid more effective in the last two decades have given prominence to "country ownership." With true country ownership, aid is supposed to follow the priorities of recipient countries, rather than those of the funders. Yet funders have their priorities too. So recipients and ...
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What Is “Country Ownership”? A Formal Exploration of the Aid Relationship

William Savedoff
October 11, 2019
This paper illustrates the tradeoff between country ownership and funders’ priorities with a formal model in which aid is governed by a contract to produce a jointly desired outcome. The model generalizes the Principal-Agent approaches for studying aid which treat countries as having multiple ...
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Are E-cigarettes a Threat or Boon to Public Health?

William D. Savedoff
October 08, 2019
As recent reports intensify arround the health concerns of e-cigarettes, Bill Savedoff looks at the public health effects of e-cigarettes through the market, highlighting that change will come from profit-driven corporate behavior.
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Common Goods for Health: We Need Them. So How Do We Get Them?

William Savedoff
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...
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Better Together: Finance and Health Ministers Can Deliver a Win-Win for their Countries

Masood Ahmed
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William Savedoff
September 17, 2019
This blog post is part of a series on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) originally published by the World Bank. The series includes contributions from external bloggers and reflects their views. Follow the conversation on Twitter #HealthForAll
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The Missing Link? An Independent Fiduciary to Enable Paying for Outcomes

William Savedoff
July 26, 2019
In the world of foreign aid flows, the idea of paying for outcomes rather than inputs has a long history. Yet despite regular proclamations of interest in such approaches, the share of funding that is linked to outputs or outcomes instead of activities and processes remains quite small.

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