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REPORTS
October 26, 2006
In its first four years, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has become one of the most important aid agencies in the world. As the Global Fund undergoes its first leadership transition, this CGD Working Group Report identifies seven tasks for the new Executive Director, starting...
Oct
26
2006
12:00—1:30 PM
October 16, 2006
Can performance-based incentives to facilities that deliver health services improve health results in low-income settings? An example of paying for performance in Haiti is being documented along with other experiences as part of the Center for Global Development’s Working Group on Performance-Based...
REPORTS
September 07, 2006
In response to a request from the Millennium Challenge Corporation, CGD convened the Global Health Indicators Working Group to examine potential measures of a government's commitment to health. The group's report recommends eight indicators for consideration by the MCC and other donors as they asses...
WORKING PAPERS
August 31, 2006
Donors are considering committing in advance to purchase vaccines against diseases concentrated in low-income countries to spur research and development on vaccines for neglected diseases. How much money is needed? The authors of this paper find that a commitment comparable in size to the average sa...
Sep
7
2006
3:30—5:00 PM
August 29, 2006
To target development assistance to countries where it will be used most productively, both multilateral and bilateral donor agencies use statistical evidence to elucidate key characteristics of countries that are thought to be associated with the effectiveness of aid. Influential research has sugge...
Aug
10
2006
10:30—12:00 PM
August 02, 2006
Over the past decade, the intensity of interactions between public and private agents in the Mexican health sector has increased. The interaction is taking several forms, including the financing and delivery of services. Based on the description of three cases, this presentation will highlight the m...
BRIEFS
May 15, 2006
Health care is no more immune to governance problems than any other sector. Numerous studies have documented such problems, for example, in the procurement of health supplies, in under-the-table payments for services, and in nurses and doctors who fail to show up at their clinics but nonetheless col...
Mar
7
2006
9:00—11:00 AM
February 27, 2006
CGD and the health policy journal Health Affairs hosted the launch of the journal's new global health policy initiative. Speakers included Ramanan Laxminarayan, Resources for the Future; David Ridley, Duke University; Mark Pauly, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Jean-Louis Sarbib, The Wor...