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Fuente: center for global development If private markets can produce the iPhone, why can’t aid organizations create and implement development initiatives that are equally innovative and sought after by people around the world? The key difference is feedback loops. Well-functioning private markets…

Fuente: Talks | TEDx Collecting global health data was an imperfect science: Workers tramped through villages to knock on doors and ask questions, wrote the answers on paper forms, then input the data -- and from this gappy information, countries would make huge decisions. Data geek Joel Selanikio…

Fuente: The New York Times An analysis found that delaying clamping for at least a minute after birth significantly improves iron stores and hemoglobin levels in newborn babies.

Fuente: The World Bank's These past weeks I’ve visited several southern African nations to assist on-going evaluations of health sector pay-for-performance reforms. It’s been a whirlwind of government meetings, field trips, and periods of data crunching. We’ve made good progress and also…

Fuente: The Washington Post Despite the well-known advantages to breast milk and vigorous campaigns around the world championing breast as best, Mexican mothers say the bottle is better…

Fuente: The Lancet Maternal and child undernutrition was the subject of a Series of papers in The Lancet in 2008. Five years after the initial series, we re-evaluate the problems of maternal and child undernutrition and also examine the growing problems of overweight and obesity for women and…

Fuente: World Bank Having just returned from Dartmouth and meetings with the Center for Health Care Delivery Science, I’ve been thinking about the phrase “Delivery Science.” World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim’s use of the term in recent speeches is related to using evidence-based…

Fuente: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation As we prepare for our annual strategy reviews in Family Health, we took time to reflect on what we’ve learned over the past year. One overarching lesson jumped out at us: if our goal is truly to achieve impact at scale, then we must be more purposive in…

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