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Blog Post
December 13, 2013
Yesterday the World Bank and the Global Fund announced a stronger partnership for health centered around an innovative aid mechanism, results-based financing (RBF). This partnership is precisely what our CGD report More Health for the Money recommended (see the chapter ...
Blog Post
December 02, 2013
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria will host its fourth replenishment meeting this week in Washington, DC where it’s hoping to raise $15 billion to support its work for the next three years. On the eve of the replenishment, the BBC will air a 30-minute segm...
Blog Post
October 28, 2013
The Economist’s take on the Give Directly evaluation argues that unconditional cash transfers (UCT) “don’t deal with the deeper causes of poverty.” The article cites Baird and co-authors’ review showing that vigorously enforced condit...
Blog Post
October 22, 2013
It appears that the worst kept secret in Washington is out: Ambassador Goosby is expected to step down as Global AIDS Coordinator later this year. As CGD has done for similar leadership transitions, we are working on a report to examine the future direction of PEPFAR and consider which tas...
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...
Press Release
September 17, 2013
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria disburses more than a billion dollars a year and has likely saved millions of lives-but it could
save many more lives and avert untold suffering by re-structuring its activities to get more health for the money, according to a new report ...
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...