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Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
This perceptive book emphasizes the need for an overall analytical framework that can be applied to different countries to help analyze the current situation, identify potential areas for improvement, and assess their relative feasibility and the steps needed to promote them.
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Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
China's current strategy to improve how health services are paid for is headed in the right direction, but much more remains to be done. In a recent article in The Lancet, Brookings scholars David de Ferranti and Maria-Luisa Escobar, along with Shanlian Hu, Shenglan Tang, Yuanli Liu, and Yuxin Zhao, examine key challenges that need to be met and explore lessons from other countries.
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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
With numerous new tools for financial global health aid, how should governments and donors examine and prioritize the options? Brookings global health experts examine the options and proposal a framework to help guide aid decisions.
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Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Human resources are crucial for the provision of health care and represent the largest single use of public spending on health in developing countries. Yet countries face an ongoing challenge when it comes to financing human resources for health (HRH) sufficiently to sustain an adequate supply of health workers and stimulate greater productivity and more effective health care. This article discusses ways to improve the effectiveness of HRH financing policies in developing countries.
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Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by David de Ferranti, Frankfurter Rundschau (5/20/07)
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Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
David de Ferranti and Anthony J. Ody explain why the time has come to pay greater attention to the potential of small and medium-sized commercial firms to promote economic growth.
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Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Top Ten Global Economic Challenges Report by Global Economy and Development (February 2007)
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Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by David de Ferranti, International Herald Tribune (11/3/06)
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Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT
To improve developing countries' effectiveness in utilizing scarce public funds, efforts to achieve greater transparency and accountability in budget processes must be strengthened. This brief argues specifically for expanded initiatives to strengthen domestic civil society capacity - independent of governments - to provide substantive analysis of budget choices and the distribution and effectiveness of public spending, and to make the results accessible to the general population both directly and via intermediaries such as the media.
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Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
David de Ferranti paper
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Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by David de Ferranti, The brookings Institution (July 2006)
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Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT
The World Bank's role in middle income developing countries needs to change. Not to end lending to them, or adopt the other proposals from extremists on the right or left. But rather to modernize both what the Bank does and how it does it, so as to respond more effectively to the changed circumstances, needs, and preferences of this group of countries.