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Blog Post
October 02, 2013
Argentina is a highly decentralized federal country, where more than 70% of public spending on health happens sub-nationally by independent provincial governments. Since budgetary transfers between levels of government have no conditions attached, the federal government has often struggled to influe...
Blog Post
September 30, 2013
Policy makers on Capitol Hill have some pressing policy issues to tackle in the coming weeks (like reaching an agreement to fund the government and raising the debt ceiling). Fortunately, one bill that landed on their desk last week shouldn’t require much debate: The PEPFAR Stewardship a...
Blog Post
September 27, 2013
My recent editorial in the Guardian highlighted the importance of better defining and verifying results as part of the next Global Fund funding cycle. In particular, I’m critical of using indicators like “bed nets distributed” to convey anything about the impact of the progra...
Blog Post
September 09, 2013
This is a joint post with Yuna Sakuma.
The majority of the world’s sick live in middle-income countries (MIC) – mainly Pakistan, India, Nigeria, China and Indonesia (or PINCI), according to new data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washing...