CONFERENCE EDITION. Health is a fundamental human right, and universal health coverage (UHC) is critical for achieving … that right. UHC represents the aspiration that good quality health services should be received by everyone, when and where … High-level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage in September 2019, the most comprehensive international health agreement in …

"Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable …'s exposure to disease through measures such as implementing health and sanitary regulations. They complement the clinical … coherent public health regulations in countries where donors have long been active, facilitating the spread of diseases such as …

and total factor productivity growth in small and large states in the South. There are three main findings. First …, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two … their interaction on productivity growth in small states is more than three times that for large countries, with the …

This study reviews aid flows to the health sector in Somalia over the period 2000-2006. In close collaboration with the … Health Sector Committee of the Coordination of International Support to Somalis the authors collected quantitative and ….The paper reaches three main conclusions. First, aid financing to the health sector in Somalia has been constantly growing …

"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …

"There is a growing literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity. Nearly all such … studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. The author shows that … the positive effect of liberalization on productivity when they do not account for the endogeneity bias. On the theory …

for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth …