Fridays Academy: Health, Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth (V)

Development Assistance for Health – DAH
The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (2001) concluded that the level of health spending in low income countries was insufficient to address their health challenges and that a scaling up of financing was needed in tandem with government-wide reform programs targeted towards the functioning and delivery of health services.  Reform [...]

IFC-FT Essay Competition

The International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group (IFC) and the Financial Times (FT) have announced their second annual Essay Competition. This year’s theme is “Private Sector Development: Creating Markets, Transforming Lives.”
Awards of  20,000, 10,000 and 5,000 USD up for grabs, and a chance to have your ideas published and maybe put to work.
Deadline [...]

Fridays Academy: Health, Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth (IV)

Life Expectancy
Source:   World Development Indicators
Despite the very real challenge from AIDS, which has undone earlier progress made in health in some regions (exhibit above) the challenges to improve health indicators further are not insurmountable. CMH note that the “epidemiological evidence conveys a crucial message: the vast majority of the excess disease burden is the result [...]

Migration and Development Conference, May 23-24, Washington DC

Organized by the World Bank’s Migration Group, the OECD Development Centre and the Migration Policy Institute.
This two-day conference will provide the space for a dialogue between the external research and policy community to identify critical areas for interventions that enhance the development impact of migration. It will make an explicit effort in identifying policy areas for increased attention [...]