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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:04:06 GMT
The Africa Growth Initiative conducts high-quality policy research and analysis focused on attaining sustainable economic development and prosperity in Africa, while amplifying the voice of African researchers in policy-making and planning.
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Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:49:38 GMT
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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
On October 29 President Zuma surprised the South African Parliament by announcing the need to "respond with urgency and resolve" to the "devastating impact of HIV and AIDS" on the nation. Richard Joseph discusses recent efforts to combat this disease in Africa and what can be done to facilitate further effective and humane action.
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Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In 1,000 days, the seventh billion human being joins the rest of us on Planet Earth. Hakan Altinay poses the question, "What would we tell her?" and reflects on the advances the world has made and critical risks that still exist. He proposes that this occasion offers us a chance to reflect on the human condition and implicit responsibilities we have toward other human beings and future generations.
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:35:02 GMT
Experts are bracing for an extremely high H1N1 flu infection rate this fall and winter. Joshua Epstein says computer modeling can help the medical community and policy-makers predict which populations are most susceptible to infection, how great the infection rate will be and how to stem the spread of the virus.
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Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Joshua M. Epstein explains that agent-based computational models can capture irrational behaviour, complex social networks and global scale — all essential in confronting H1N1.
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Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
As swine flu continues to spread in the United States and globally, fears of a pandemic have contributed to stock market decline as many industries suffer from a lack of public confidence. Warwick McKibbin analyzes the impact on the global economy and says the next few weeks are critical to assess whether the world will see further economic decline.
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Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:46:00 GMT
With cases of swine flu rising in the United States and around the world, health officials are taking action to contain the spread and severity of the disease. Brookings Fellow Ross Hammond discussed the artificial society models he has helped develop that can aid professionals in better understanding how to prepare for and react to epidemics.
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Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Fearing the swine flu outbreak may lead to pandemic, stock markets have declined and tourism, food and transportation industries are suffering from a lack of public confidence. Brookings expert Warwick McKibbin and Alexandra A. Sidorenko offer insight into what type of reactions we could see from the global economy.
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Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
International aid has significantly impacted Ethiopia's development initiatives since the end of World War II, and Ethiopia has been a major recipient of foreign aid in recent times. Project consultant Getnet Alemu examines the country’s aid flows—predominantly assisting Ethiopia's health sector—and argues that although aid has been instrumental in the country's development, donor coordination has been challenging.
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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:30:33 GMT
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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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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In the global health arena, performance-based aid projects have increased in recent years. Global health experts examine recent experiences with these projects and analyze lessons for policymakers.
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Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Data on health system financing and spending, together with information on the disease prevalence and cost-effectiveness of interventions, constitute essential input into health policy and is particularly critical in developing countries. Brookings Nonresident Fellow Amanda Glassman, along with fellow health specialists Dorota A. Raciborska and Patricia Hernández, offers a history of health spending measurement, describes alternative sources of data, and recommends improving international collaboration and advocacy with the private sector for the way forward.
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Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In an article for the first edition of the International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Brookings Scholar Amanda Glassman and Kent Buse, Research Fellow from the Overseas Development Institute, review the major theoretical treatments of politics in the health sector in developing countries and provide examples of common issues that have emerged in the study of the politics of public health policy reform.
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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The amount and frequency of aid for global health projects can be volatile and uncertain, further complicating efforts to maintain programs and services. In a new working paper, Amanda Glassman and Chris Lane examine how innovating health financing might help make global health aid more predictable.
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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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Thu, 29 May 2008 13:00:00 GMT
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- May 29, 2008, 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- May 30, 2008, 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Bill Easterly and Jessica Cohen of Brookings recently convened a conference with leading development experts to explore one of the most vexing issues of global development: what do we really know about what works and what doesn’t when fighting global poverty?
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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT
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- April 15, 2008, 10:00 AM to 12:45 PM
Many health systems in the developing world are plagued by unequal access to health care, low utilization of services and high user fees. On April 15, Global Economy and Development at Brookings hosted presentations from leading authorities on the impact of health insurance in developing countries.
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Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
As the reauthorization of PEPFAR builds bipartisan support on the Hill, the next five year infusion may reach 50 billion dollars for the fight against HIV/AIDS. At the same time, current economic turmoil has the propensity to diminish aid flows for health and contribute to the often short-term and volatile nature of health financing. Amanda Glassman analyzes the relationship between health aid and economic recession and the consequential depletion of government spending in developing countries.
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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, 06 Feb 2008 11:30:00 GMT
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- February 06, 2008, 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Brookings and the Center for Global Development hosted William Easterly for a presentation of his recent paper, “How the Millennium Development Goals Are Unfair to Africa.” Easterly discussed his analysis that most African countries’ predicted failure will result more from the design of the goals and how they are measured than from unique deficiencies in Africa’s development process.
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Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Arvind Panagariya discusses the degraded state of India's health care system and how it is affecting the nation's poor.
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Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In a new Global working paper, Jessica Cohen studies malaria prevention efforts in detail, analyzing whether free distribution or cost-sharing of anti-malarial insecticide-treated nets in Kenya affects prevention of the disease.
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Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In a new Brookings Global working paper, William Easterly analyzes the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and argues that the initial definitions of “success” or “failure” have made attainment of the MGDs less likely in Africa than in other regions.
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Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The continuity and sustainability of global health financing continues to be a major challenge in the fight to stem HIV/AIDS, particularly in developing countries. Brookings Global Health expert Amanda Glassman examines country-based endowment funds as one innovative financing mechanism that could help alleviate this ongoing problem.
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Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Reflecting on World AIDS Day, Brookings Global Health Financing scholars discuss the importance of providing low-cost health insurance to low-income households to help guarantee HIV/AIDS treatment.
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Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
An event brought together top international obesity experts—from academia, government, industry, and non-profit—to work toward a comprehensive approach to the worldwide obesity pandemic. Brookings’s Ross Hammond discussed how insights and techniques pioneered at CSED can play a key role in facilitating an integrated approach.
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Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT
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- November 07, 2007, 12:00 PM to 12:00
The Global Health Financing Initiative hosted a presentation given by Adam Wagstaff, Lead Economist at the World Bank, on the impact of social health insurance (SHI) on health care spending, utilization, health status and labor markets in developing and transition countries.
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Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The availability of statistics is crucial in the fight against poverty and the lack of reliable and good-quality statistics is a major obstacle to assessment of changes in development indicators in many African countries. Brookings Scholar Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala discusses the importance of improving health statistics in Africa.
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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT
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- October 22, 2007, 12:00 PM to 12:00
The Global Health Financing Initiative hosted a discussion of the lessons learned in Rwanda to date with Caroline Kayonga, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Health of Republic of Rwanda. She shared experiences in scaling up community-based health insurance and reflect on challenges faced to reach universal coverage.
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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT
On October 22, 2007, representatives of development aid agencies in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands were joined by ministry officials from Rwanda and Liberia at Brookings to discuss the role that innovative financing plays in donor health aid portfolios and how to assess whether new instruments add value in a crowded health aid landscape.
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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:00:00 GMT
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- October 22, 2007, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
On October 22, Brookings hosted a discussion of key issues in innovative financing for global health from the donors’ perspective with a distinguished panel of international government officials.
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Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:08:14 GMT
CSIS-Brookings News Release (6/7/05)
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Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:07:45 GMT
News Release
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Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:07:41 GMT
News Release (1/10/07)
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Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:00:00 GMT
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- August 02, 2007, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Global Health Financing Initiative at Brookings and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
McKibbin and Sidorenko explore ways to estimate the economic consequences of pandemics, based on computer simulations incorporating what we know about influenza transmission and the likely response by governments, as well as by markets.
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Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Having accurate data measuring mortality rates and other indicators of health is an important means for targeting assistance for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and evaluating the impact of humanitarian response. However, such data on IDPs are often non-existent, inaccurate and incomplete. Steps needs to be taken, as Robert Lidstone argues, to improve this data to increase the understanding of the health needs of IDPs.
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Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Desk Study by Robert Lidstone (May 2007)
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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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Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Desk Study by Robert Lidstone, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement (May 2007)
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Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Charles C. Griffin (04/24/07)
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Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
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- March 12, 2007 at 12:00 AM
The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC) and the Brookings Institution co-hosted a private sector forum to promote key achievements and to present practical methods for increased corporate involvement in an effective and innovative malaria response.
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:00:00 GMT
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- February 28, 2007, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
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Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Amanda Glassman (2/15/07)
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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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Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT
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- July 24, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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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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Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Michael Kremer
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Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Why is There No AIDS Vaccine paper
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Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:30:00 GMT
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- April 24, 2006, 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
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Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT
This paper critically reviews the existing research on the cost-effective prevention and treatment of diarrheal diseases, and identifies research priorities in this area aimed at finding ways to reduce the diarrheal disease burden. In contrast to the empirical knowledge base that exists for traditional child health programs to reduce diarrheal morbidity and mortality, evidence on the relative effectiveness and costeffectiveness of various environmental health interventions is limited and subject to significant methodological concerns. There is a limited understanding of the determinants of long-term water and sanitation technology adoption and behavior change at the individual level. Even less is known about how collective action problems in water and sanitation infrastructure maintenance can be overcome. An agenda for future research includes evaluating alternative transmission interruption mechanisms, improving understanding of the determinants of individual-level technology adoption in the water and sanitation sector, and assessing the quality of infrastructure maintenance under different management schemes.
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Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Warwick McKibbin and Alexandra Sidorenko explore the implications of a pandemic influenza outbreak on the global economy through a range of scenarios (mild, moderate, severe, and ultra) that span the historical experience of influenza pandemics of the twentieth century.
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Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT
We report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya: 1) training teachers in the Kenyan Government's HIV/AIDS-education curriculum; 2) encouraging students to debate the role of condoms and write essays on how they can protect themselves against HIV/AIDS; and 3) reducing the cost of education. Our primary measure of the effectiveness of these interventions is teenage childbearing, which is associated with unprotected sex. We also collected measures of knowledge, attitudes, and behavior regarding HIV/AIDS. After two years, teacher training increased students' tolerance toward people with HIV/AIDS. Girls exposed to the program were more likely to be married to the fathers of their children. The program had little other impact on students' knowledge, attitudes, and behavior, or on the incidence of teen childbearing. The condom debates and essays increased practical knowledge and self-reported use of condoms without increasing self-reported sexual activity. Reducing the cost of education by paying for school uniforms reduced dropout rates, teen marriage, and childbearing.
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Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Karl F. Inderfurth, David Fabrycky, and Stephen P. Cohen, Foreign Policy Magazine (December 2005)
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Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT
We report results from a randomized evaluation of a merit scholarship program for adolescent girls in Kenya, and discuss their implications for understanding educational production and for the policy debate surrounding merit awards. Girls who scored well on academic exams had their school fees paid and received a large cash grant. Girls eligible for the scholarship showed substantial gains in exam scores and gains persisted in the years following the competition. Both student and teacher school attendance increased in the program schools. Our results suggest not only that study effort is responsive to incentives but also that there are positive externalities: boys, who were ineligible for the award, also experienced exam gains, as did girls with low pretest scores (who were very unlikely to win). These large externalities address some of the equity concerns raised by critics of merit awards, and provide further rationale for public education subsidies.
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Tue, 02 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Susan E. Rice, YaleGlobal (8/2/05)
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Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT
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Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Observers in many industrialized countries believe population aging represents a serious economic threat. Increases in the percentage of the population past retirement age may impose unsustainable burdens on future workers. Either taxes or government debt will have to rise substantially to pay for old-age income support. This paper considers the extent of these burdens and corrects the widespread impression that the burdens are unsupportable.
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Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:00:00 GMT
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- June 27, 2005 at 11:00 AM
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Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Susan Rice, (6/27/05)
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Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT
New commercial investment in researcn and development for vaccines would complement funding of research and development by public and charitable bodies, accelerating the development of vital new vaccines for the developing world.
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Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT
A Report of the CSIS Task Force on HIV/AIDS; Brookings/CSIS Joint Delegation to Russia, February 20-26, 2005
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Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Joshua Angrist, Eric Bettinger, and Michael Kremer (April 2005)
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Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Colin I. Bradford (1/14/05)
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Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT
This is the first comparative analysis of the role and performance of private health insurance (PHI) in OECD countries.
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Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Ralph C. Bryant (September 2004)
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Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Warwick J. McKibbin and Jeremy Nguyen (August 2004)
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Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Ralph C. Bryant, Hamid Faruqee, Delia Velculescu, and Elif Arbatli (August 2004)
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Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Ralph C. Bryant (August 2004)
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Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT
This volume offers a synthesis of findings from recent OECD studies undertaken as part of the three-year Health Project, an initiative to answer many of the key questions facing todays health policy makers.
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Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Louise C Keely and Margaret Macleod hypothesize that the perceived returns to human capital and to income uncertainty are important determinants of recent cross-sectional variation in Latin American fertility
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Mon, 01 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT
The second edition of Health at a Glance brings together the latest comparable data and trends concerning health status and risks, the activity and resources of health care systems, and health expenditure and financing across the 30 OECD count
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Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Jong-Wha Lee and Warwick J. McKibbin (2/04)
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Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Ann Florini, What's Next? (Sept. 2003)
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Wed, 02 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT
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- July 02, 2003 at 12:00 AM
The outbreak of SARS in China was the most serious test of China's new leadership's ability to deal with crisis. Although the Chinese government has effectively contained the epidemic for now, there is much uncertainty about the effects of the crisis on China's political stability and economic performance. On July 2, 2003, Brookings co-hosted an event to discuss the crisis and its effects on politics and the economy.
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Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT
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- June 25, 2003 at 12:00 AM
At a CNAPS Roundtable Luncheon on June 25, 2003, Hsiao Bi-khim, member of the Legislative Yuan (Taiwan) and Director of the Department of International Affairs of the Democratic Progressive Party, spoke on Taiwan's handling of the recent SARS crisis, its efforts to engage the World Health Organization, and the DPP's standing in Taiwan's pre-election opinion polls.
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Fri, 30 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Susan Rice and Gayle Smith in The International Herald Tribune (05/30/03)
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Tue, 20 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Jong-Wha Lee and Warwick J. McKibbin (5/20/03)
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Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Chapter from Biological Security and Global Public Health (May 2003)
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Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT
A bitter decade-long dispute over pharmaceutical patent protection in developing countries has become exceptionally costly. The clash between the pharmaceutical industry and advocates for the poor may not only hinder research on diseases endemic to t
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Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT
A working paper by Lael Brainard, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, February 24, 2003, that discusses the Millenium Challenge Account and the fight against global poverty.
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Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:30:00 GMT
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- September 26, 2002, 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM
One year after September 11, the importance of state stability as one component for deterring unrest and terrorism is being recognized. The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland addressed how improved health programs can help promote economic development and stability.
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Mon, 08 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Michael O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow, and Carol Graham, Deputy Director of Economic Studies, the Brookings Institution, in the Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2002
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Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT
Article by P.W. Singer in Survival (Spring 2002)
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Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Bates Gill, Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution, Jennifer Chang, Research Assistant, the Brookings Institution, Sarah Palmer, virologist at the HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, in
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Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Review article by Erica J. Barks-Ruggles (Fall 2001)
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Mon, 11 Jun 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Jean Lanjouw, Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, June 11, 2001
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Tue, 01 May 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Policy Brief #57, by Rachel Glennerster and Michael Kremer (May 2000)
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Sun, 01 Apr 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Policy Brief #75, by Erica Barks-Ruggles (April 2001)
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Fri, 01 Sep 2000 00:00:00 GMT
csed working paper 15, economic studies, brookings institution
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Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:30:00 GMT
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- March 12, 1998, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM