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August 07, 2023
As Lao Tsu put it a couple of thousand years ago, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” One of those single steps in the journey towards a quality education—the goal of the fourth Sustainable Development Goal—is children simply attending school. While attending school regularly ...
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August 07, 2023
In a new paper, we argue that the idea of “stewardship”—and the tension between some stewardship policies and patient access—extends well beyond antimicrobials, to all drug classes. We consider the many reasons why governments opt to impose controls on medicines, and how rationales for control relat...
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August 03, 2023
High on the list of objectives in the ongoing multilateral development bank (MDB) reform debate is to increase levels of private capital mobilization—something that has proved much harder to achieve than expected. Despite the lofty ambitions set out in the “billions to trillions” agenda, each dolla...
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August 03, 2023
As India emerges as a key player in global health, it is important to ask which areas offer the greatest opportunity to advance international cooperation. This essay describes India’s historical influences and highlights current and future directions for India’s role in global health, particularly a...
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August 03, 2023
On August 1, 2023, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken launched the new Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy at the Acheson Auditorium in the State Department. Reorganizing government is unglamorous and rife with political hazards, but it has the potential to build a faster and better...
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August 03, 2023
No healthcare system has an unlimited budget, and policy makers everywhere must balance demand for new health services with finite resources. Priority setting systems, often in the form of health technology assessment (HTA), can help evaluate whether health services provide good value for the money...
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August 02, 2023
The future of such spending in countries currently experiencing or at high risk of debt distress is particularly troubling. A country is in debt distress when its ability to service domestic and external debt is impaired. This blog post delves into these issues based on more recent health spending a...