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Blog Post
January 23, 2020
As middle income countries transition from donor support and increasingly use domestic funds to finance health programmes that have previously received substantial external aid, it is imperative that they build and use Health Technology Assessment capacities so that they can prioritise inv...
Blog Post
January 22, 2020
While sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have made some progress in collecting more taxes domestically in the last 20 years, international tax issues remain a significant concern for these and other developing countries, reflecting aggressive tax planning by multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the...
Blog Post
January 21, 2020
Government decisions affect people’s lives and should be reasonable, not arbitrary. This core liberal principle applies to all major policy decisions, including budget choices. Modern conceptions of democracy, and democratic accountability, also require that government decisions be justified i...
Blog Post
January 21, 2020
Less than 45 percent of the area of Tanzania is covered by any form of cell phone reception. Telecom providers target high-population areas first, so the percentage of the population covered by the cell phone signal is 83 percent. But the problem is that the remaining 17 percent of the population, o...
Blog Post
January 17, 2020
In low-and middle-income countries, the health sector is under pressure to expand the coverage of services while also increasing the domestic resources funding them. Countries are transitioning away from aid and coordinated action is critical to ensure this change does not hinder the ...