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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 »

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. Read More »

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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Habits of Highly Effective Countries – Lessons for India
2008-05-30
This study provides a growth manual for Indian policy makers. With limited resources and many objectives, what should policy makers strive to achieve in order to obtain the maximum taxpayer returns? “Habits for Highly Effective Countries: Lessons for India” demonstrates how adhering to the rule of law is the single most important thing governments can do in order to achieve high growth.

UNAIDS myths on AIDS pandemic costing billions – new report
2008-05-20
Billions of dollars are being wasted due to UNAIDS’ exaggeration of a ‘general’ AIDS pandemic, says Professor Jim Chin, the leading epidemiologist who helped the WHO design global AIDS surveillance methods in the 1980s.

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