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Aligning Incentives, Accelerating Impact: Next Generation Financing Models for Global Health
Next Generation Financing Models in Global Health Working Group
December 15, 2015
Founded in 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) is one of the world’s largest multilateral health funders, disbursing $3–$4 billion a year across 100-plus countries. Many of these countries rely on Global Fund monies to finance their respective ...
Blog Post

How to Make Fiscal Transfers Work for Better Health
Anit Mukherjee et al.
December 07, 2015
India matters for global health. It accounts not only for about one-fifth of the global population, but also one-fifth of the global disease burden. Yet the Indian government spends only 1 percent of its GDP on public health—a paltry amount compared to what other large, federal countries like ...
POLICY PAPER

Payment System Regulation for Improving Financial Inclusion
Maria Chiara Malaguti
December 02, 2015
Drawing from existing domestic experiences and the first results of the international debate, this paper tries to identify some high-level recommendations on how the payments system should be regulated to best achieve the particular goal of inclusion.
Blog Post

Four Challenges for Blended Finance and Development Finance Institutions

Theodore Talbot
November 25, 2015
Overseas development assistance amounts to about $135 billion dollars annually, but the cost of paying for the Sustainable Development Goals will be in the trillions. As a result, blended finance is something of a buzz phrase these days. I left a workshop on blended finance last week in Paris excite...