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G8 should abandon current model of health aid - new report
OECD governments currently spend billions on subsidising the provision of government healthcare in Africa, with little tangible results. We should abandon this model and instead expand the use of Africa's considerable private sector.
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Trusting the African private sector with aid
2008-07-03
Philip Stevens
The G8 are hinting at cutting back the quantity of development aid but there's no talk of improving the quality: Campaign for Fighting Diseases director Philip Stevens shows how donors' money could be better used to provide better health services in poor countries and how the poor can benefit from competition between health providers - not just in developed countries with advanced insurance systems but among the rural poor in a wide variety of poor countries. Read More »
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Aiding poverty: the G-8's role in Africa's progress
2008-07-02
Caroline Boin & Alec van Gelder
The G8 meeting Hokkaido from 7 to 9 July will inevitably culminate with more calls for more aid to Africa, where US$2.3 trillion over the last 40 years has failed to remove poverty or improve production: there must be a reason that makes poverty perpetual.
Caroline Boin and Alec van Gelder argue that bad policies create bad economies and that aid supports corrupt and incompetent governments as they keep the poor in serfdom - Ethiopia being a particularly nasty example.
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Health tourism can be healthy
2008-06-23
Fredrik Erixon and Lucy Davis
The benefits of trade have for too long been driven away from healthcare by ring-fenced nationalised systems and vested interests. Now evidence suggests that trade can slow the rise in healthcare costs and be a valuable source of revenue for developing countries. Read More »
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The 2008 Bastiat Prize for Journalism has now closed for submissions
Six finalists will be announced in September
The winner will be announced on October 22 at the Bastiat Dinner in New York
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