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Fuente: World Health Organization This guidance aims to support European policy-makers to improve the design and implementation of policies to reduce inequities in health. It brings together current evidence on how to develop comprehensive policy action plans to identify and address social…

Fuente: IDB Belize is participating in the Salud Mesoamerica 2015 Initiative (SM2015), a regional public-private partnership administered by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and implemented by the eight Mesoamerican countries, which utilizes a results-based financing model with external…

This paper was developed for World Bank task team leaders (TTLs) and teams designing results-based financing (RBF) programs in family planning (FP). It explores the rationale for introducing such incentives based on insights from classical and behavioral economics, to respond to supply- and demand-…

Fuente: Development Asia Hunger, as in the physical sensation, is easy to identify. But hunger the statistical category is more abstract.

Fuente: The New York Times Bill and Melinda Gates, the guiding force behind one of the world’s most influential philanthropies, discuss their foundation’s work, their marriage and reading.

Fuente: TED We’ve known how to cure malaria since the 1600s, so why does the disease still kill hundreds of thousands every year? It’s more than just a problem of medicine, says journalist Sonia Shah. A look into the history of malaria reveals three big-picture challenges to its eradication.

Fuente: Health and Science Poverty consumes so much mental energy that people struggling to make ends meet often have little brainpower left for anything else, leaving them more susceptible to bad decisions that can perpetuate their situation, according to a study published Thursday in the journal…

The Carlos Slim Foundation has been expanding its reach across Latin America, with new, large-scale partnerships like Mesoamerica, the health initiative with governments across the region, the Inter-American Development Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others. In this short interview,…

Fuente: Center for Global Development Many reform initiatives in developing countries fail to achieve sustained improvements in performance because they are merely isomorphic mimicry—that is, governments and organizations pretend to reform by changing what policies or organizations look like…