Robert Hecht

A woman who holds a BPL (Below Poverty Line) card buys wheat from a government-run ration shop in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad February 12, 2013. Picture taken February 12, 2013. To match INDIA-BUDGET/ REUTERS/Amit Dave (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD SOCIETY POVERTY) - GM1E92F1NDT01

How India can improve its Take-Home Rations program to boost child and maternal nutrition

Ryan Schwarz, Robert Hecht, Kelly Flanagan, and Rajan Sankar

Monday, October 1, 2018

Children wait to be vaccinated against the most deadly forms of pneumonia at Amistad Mexico-Nicaragua Hospital in Ticauntepe town, about 8 miles (13 kilometres) south of Managua, December 12, 2010. The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) said Nicaragua is the first developing nation to begin vaccinating children with the pneumococcal shots, made by drugmakers Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, and another 18 countries will follow in the next few years. Pneumococcal disease, which can cause pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis, kills more than half a million children every year and the vast majority of these deaths are in poorer countries where access to healthcare can be limited and very expensive. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas(NICARAGUA - Tags: HEALTH BUSINESS IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E6CD0OCO01

Are tough times ahead for countries graduating from foreign aid?

Gavin Yamey and Robert Hecht

Thursday, March 8, 2018