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Global Public Goods for Health [...]... addition to the 18 Global Public Goods for Health The Report of Working Group 2 of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health Box 1.3 Softening the lending terms for global public goods for health In partnership with several bilateral donors and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank recently designed an innovative new programme to finance global public goods for health Modelled on... sources of finance for global public goods overall (i.e not specific to health) (See Box 1.2 for a brief account of the history of charitable giving and global public goods for health. ) Other significant sources include allocations of net income by multilateral development banks and programme spending by UN agencies Despite a rapid increase in spending on global public goods for health, the largest... international health on topics relating to globalization, health and development The Report brings a global public goods perspective to health, exploring the basis for multicountry collaboration to improve global health and, most especially, the health of the world’s very poor The concept of global public goods refers to programmes, policies, and services that have a truly global impact on health, although... to contribute to the supply of global public goods for health is its focus on bilateral lending The Bank’s ability to increase its role as an important supplier of global public goods for health will require the creation of better mechanisms for making concessionary loans and grants to multiple countries or regions 1.6 Conclusions In sum, global public goods are public goods that exhibit cross-border... Non health- related activities outside the sphere of any single individual that improve health (e.g restrictions on industrial pollutants; efforts to slow global warming) Each of these types of activities has an analogy at the global level A global public goods perspective focuses on those types of public health programmes and policies that have a global reach Because the unit of analysis for global public. .. a Health for All” movement that characterized international health policy for over two decades—but is good health itself a global pub- 10 Global Public Goods for Health The Report of Working Group 2 of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health lic good? Most economists think it is not Although there are some positive externalities to good health (and negative externalities to bad), personal health. .. flexibly and effectively Global Public Goods for Health 13 to global challenges A diverse array of international agencies, both bilateral and multilateral, has been created for this purpose These agencies provide a variety of services that may be considered global public goods, including resource transfers; knowledge generation; harmonized norms and standards; and fora for global negotiations, regulation,... tuberculosis However, it is the export Global Public Goods for Health 7 of resistant strains, not the national public health system itself, that is the global “bad” The terms global and international have often been used interchangeably in the literature, but some consensus on a precise use of terms is slowly forming (Lele et al., 2001) Generally speaking, ■ Global public goods refer to programmes, policies,... behind a global public goods agenda for health, although—as we shall see—achieving the levels of cooperation needed may be difficult 1.2.1 Definitions The economic foundations of the concept of public goods, explored in this section, provide the basis for understanding when international collective action in health may be justified.1 The term global public goods is derived from the economic theory of public. .. and Health Table 1.1 Global public goods and their properties Excludability Rivalry Low High Low Public goods Club goods High Common pool goods Private goods their degree of publicness (Sandler and Arce, 2001) The term merit goods has been used in a normative sense by economists to describe goods to which people should have access, regardless of their ability or willingness to pay, because the goods . to global health. 2 Global Public Goods for Health The Report of Working Group 2 of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health 1. Global Public Goods for Health 1.1 Introduction The pace of global. Global Public Goods for Health