Towards Universal Health Coverage: thinking public
This report offers a comprehensive deep-dive analysis of public financing for health in LMICs by assessing the changing relationship between domestic public financing for health and the economy, the budget … Continue reading →
Free Healthcare in One of the Poorest Nations
After assuming office in 2007, Ernest Bai Koroma faced a country in distress. Just five years prior Sierra Leone had concluded a fierce 11-year civil war leaving the nation in … Continue reading →
Innovations in Care: New Concepts, New Actors, New Policies
The Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality marks an unprecedented advance in the care agenda in terms of the visibility of care as a central dimension of sustainable development. … Continue reading →
Basic Income and the New Universalism
The universal basic income has become a subject of increasing fascination across the entire ideological spectrum in recent years. Capable of much more than just a simple “employment fix”, basic … Continue reading →
Democracies, economies and social protection – Understanding welfare state development in Asia and Europe
The aim of this policy paper is to explore what we can expect for welfare states in the developing Asian countries when we apply our knowledge of why, when and … Continue reading →
Unhealthy Development
The ideological agenda to commercialise the NHS completely ignores decades of evidence and the expertise of the healthcare profession, driven instead by the interests of private healthcare companies, lobbyists and … Continue reading →
Impacts of an unconditional cash transfer programme using a subjective well-being approach
This study analyzes the impact of an exogenous, positive income shock on caregivers’ subjective well-being in Malawi using panel data from 3,365 households targeted to receive Malawi’s Social Cash Transfer … Continue reading →
18 Charts That Make the Case for Public Health
Over the past year, I have often been involved in conversations with audiences who are interested in understanding the concerns of public health. Through this dialogue, I have found that … Continue reading →
Review of country progress in addressing legal and policy barriers to universal access to HIV services in Asia and the Pacific
Countries in Asia and the Pacific have made significant progress in removing legal and policy barriers to universal access to HIV services since 2012. However, much work remains to be done. … Continue reading →
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