Assesses the successes and failures of foreign aid programs, with an overview and examination of joint aid strategies, information systems, and lessons learned by experts from Brookings Institution and World Bank, with case studies from scholars and practitioners who reside in the recipient...

"Emphasizes the importance of universal health care and looks at alternatives for achieving universal health care coverage that also improves efficiency in the health care industry and provides proposals to improve the effectiveness and affordability of health care, including income-related...

"Examines the role that taxes currently play, the likely effects of recently introduced health savings accounts, the challenges of administering major subsidies for health insurance through the tax system, and options for using the tax system to expand health insurance coverage"--Provided by...