The Economist’s take on the Give Directly evaluation argues that unconditional cash transfers (UCT) 'don’t deal with the deeper causes of poverty.' The article cites Baird and co-authors’ review showing that vigorously enforced conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs generate...
Dr. Fiona Samuels rounds up our blog series on health and the post-2015 development agenda, collecting the key messages from across the health sector on how future health goals should look.
Este reporte es el resultado de una encuesta realizada por la OMS y la Alianza Mundial contra la Hepatitis para conocer cómo están respondiendo los Estados Miembros a la hepatitis viral. Cuenta con información de 126 países del mundo, 27 de los cuales son de las Américas.
Julio de 2013 (ONUSIDA- OPSOMS).- El Programa Conjunto de las Naciones Unidas sobre el VIHSIDA (ONUSIDA) lanzó el 15 de julio en América Latina la iniciativa Tratamiento 2015, un nuevo marco que ofrece a los países y a los socios estrategias innovadoras para aumentar el número de personas con acceso a pruebas y tratamiento del VIH.
We argue that in pharmaceutical markets, variation in the arrival time of consumer heterogeneity creates differences between a producer’s ability to extract consumer surplus with preventives and treatments, potentially distorting R&D decisions. If consumers vary only in disease risk, revenue from treatmentssold after the disease is contracted, when disease risk is no longer a source of private informationalways exceeds revenue from preventives. The revenue ratio can be arbitrarily high for sufficiently skewed distributions of disease risk.
Economic development should be conceived of as the degree to which an economy has implemented an efficient and just distribution of economic resources. The ubiquitous measure of GDP per capita reflects a utilitarian conception of justice, where individual utility is defined as personal income, and social welfare is the average of utilities in a population. A more attractive conception of justice is opportunity-equalization. Here, a two-dimensional measure of economic development is proposed, based upon viewing individuals’ incomes as a consequence of circumstances, effort, and policy.
