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Global health financing architecture for pandemic preparedness …

WEBSummary. Notes from a Civil Society Policy Forum panel on 12 October titled "Global health financing architecture for pandemic preparedness and response: …

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Austerity and the right to health

WEBSummary. Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum session on 10 April on the incoherence between IMF-backed austerity policies, via loan conditionality and …

Category:  Health Go Health

The WBG's investments in private healthcare provision: What

WEBFrom the Arab revolutions to global austerity trends . This session examined issues thrown up by the Arab revolutions, including the fiscal, monetary, tax and …

Category:  Health Go Health

Building back better health systems: lessons from the WBG's Covid …

WEBSummary. Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum session on 6 October on the World Bank's need to highlight the centrality of public healthcare systems, central to …

Category:  Health Go Health

Universal access to healthcare: Lessons learned from Public-Private

WEBFrom the Arab revolutions to global austerity trends . This session examined issues thrown up by the Arab revolutions, including the fiscal, monetary, tax and …

Category:  Health Go Health

Civil society launches framework to assess human rights impact of

WEBSummary. CSO framework evaluates consequences of private sector activity on right to health. The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI …

Category:  Health Go Health

Tip of the iceberg: How the call for SDRs reveals the urgency for

WEBSummary. A substantial new allocation of the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights is urgently required to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable countries in this …

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The human face of the World Bank's private sector bias: The

WEBSummary. A November 2021 report by Hakijamii and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University highlights the human rights …

Category:  Health Go Health

The IMF’s role in the devastating impacts of Covid-19 – the case of

WEBWhile the IMF has emphasised that it is supportive of increased public health spending in the immediate response to Covid-19, in its emergency financing loan agreed …

Category:  Health Go Health

Fiscal space for universal health and social protection post Covid …

WEBSummary. Notes from the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings 2020 Civil Society Policy Forum on 2 October on investments in long-term universal health, …

Category:  Health Go Health

World Bank pandemic bond instrument fails in COVID-19 response

WEBSummary. World Bank's ‘innovative’ health financing instrument proved to be slow and late. The ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is once again challenging …

Category:  Coronavirus Go Health

The IMF’s role in the Ebola outbreak

WEBA considerable amount of money has poured in to fight Ebola, about $1billion so far, some of it from the IMF itself. Just how much of this money will go to build health …

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World Bank's new gender strategy: Concerns about approach to …

WEBWith the World Bank’s current gender strategy set to expire next year, care and social protection emerge as a possible focus, but CSOs remain skeptical that Bank's …

Category:  Health Go Health

Health care for the few: the IFC’s Health in Africa initiative

WEBHIA failing to track pro-poor impact of investments. The World Bank Group’s flagship programme in the for-profit health sector, the Health in Africa initiative (HIA), …

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Are we heading towards an austerity-based recovery

WEBHeard use of the word “austerity” – it is a loaded and imprecise term. The best we can do is look at numbers. One important consideration is we will see large …

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Greece exits loan programme as impacts of Troika-led austerity …

WEBImpacts of austerity exposed. Analysing the impact of the Troika programme on Greek health outcomes, a July study at the University of Washington revealed that, …

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World Bank abandons pandemic bond instrument after disastrous …

WEBSummary. World Bank’s pandemic bond instrument scrapped after high visibility Covid-19 failure. The World Bank has scrapped plans to launch a second sale …

Category:  Health Go Health

Who can borrow from the World Bank

WEBLower middle-income countries (defined as those with per capita incomes of between $1,036 and $4,045) can borrow from a ‘blend’ of IDA and IBRD financing – …

Category:  Health Go Health

Gambling with our lives: Global emergencies expose …

WEBOver the last four decades, donor-led international financial institutions (IFIs) – especially the IMF and the World Bank through their structural adjustment …

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