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WORKING PAPERS
April 23, 2007
Nicaragua was one of the first low-income countries to try a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program. Under the program, poor families are paid for keeping their children in school and visiting preventive healthcare providers. Healthcare providers are paid based on their performance against predet...
WORKING PAPERS
April 16, 2007
Diarrheal diseases kill two million children a year in poor countries. Vaccination, oral rehydration therapy, breastfeeding, and micronutrient supplementation have been effective in saving lives but the continuing toll suggests that further investments are needed. In this CGD working paper, non-resi...
HIV/AIDS MONITOR ANALYSIS
March 05, 2007
In response to both public health imperative and unprecedented political pressure, aid to fight HIV/AIDS has increased massively in recent years: global funding to combat the disease in low- and middle-income countries has more than tripled since 2001, from $2.1 billion to an estimated $8.9 billion ...
ESSAYS
January 02, 2007
The US Agency for International Development (USAID)--the largest bilateral donor to family planning programs in developing countries--has played a dominant role among donors as a source of money, information and ideas about family planning. In this Essay, CGD director of programs and senior fellow R...
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...