Brookings: Experts - David de Ferranti

How to Improve Governance : A New Framework for Analysis and Action

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This perceptive book emphasizes the need for an overall analytical framework that can be applied to different countries to help analyze the current situation, identify potential areas for improvement, and assess their relative feasibility and the steps needed to promote them.

Reform of How Health Care Is Paid for in China: Challenges and Opportunities

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

China's current strategy to improve how health services are paid for is headed in the right direction, but much more remains to be done. In a recent article in The Lancet, Brookings scholars David de Ferranti and Maria-Luisa Escobar, along with Shanlian Hu, Shenglan Tang, Yuanli Liu, and Yuxin Zhao, examine key challenges that need to be met and explore lessons from other countries.

Innovative Financing for Global Health: Tools for Analyzing the Options

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

With numerous new tools for financial global health aid, how should governments and donors examine and prioritize the options? Brookings global health experts examine the options and proposal a framework to help guide aid decisions.

Planning and Costing Human Resources for Health

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Human resources are crucial for the provision of health care and represent the largest single use of public spending on health in developing countries. Yet countries face an ongoing challenge when it comes to financing human resources for health (HRH) sufficiently to sustain an adequate supply of health workers and stimulate greater productivity and more effective health care. This article discusses ways to improve the effectiveness of HRH financing policies in developing countries.

Krankenkassen fur die Armsten

Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Opinion by David de Ferranti, Frankfurter Rundschau (5/20/07)

Beyond Microfinance: Getting Capital to Small and Medium Enterprises to Fuel Faster Development

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

David de Ferranti and Anthony J. Ody explain why the time has come to pay greater attention to the potential of small and medium-sized commercial firms to promote economic growth.

Top Ten Global Economic Challenges: An Assessment of Global Risks and Priorities

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Top Ten Global Economic Challenges Report by Global Economy and Development (February 2007)

Now Hiring for Global Health

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Opinion by David de Ferranti, International Herald Tribune (11/3/06)

Enhancing Development through Better Use of Public Resources: How Independent Watchdog Groups Can Help

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

To improve developing countries' effectiveness in utilizing scarce public funds, efforts to achieve greater transparency and accountability in budget processes must be strengthened. This brief argues specifically for expanded initiatives to strengthen domestic civil society capacity - independent of governments - to provide substantive analysis of budget choices and the distribution and effectiveness of public spending, and to make the results accessible to the general population both directly and via intermediaries such as the media.

Key Economic and Social Challenges for Latin America: Perspectives from Recent Studies

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

David de Ferranti paper

Innovative Financing Options and the Fight against Global Poverty: What's New and What Next?

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Paper by David de Ferranti, The brookings Institution (July 2006)

The World Bank and the Middle Income Countries

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The World Bank's role in middle income developing countries needs to change. Not to end lending to them, or adopt the other proposals from extremists on the right or left. But rather to modernize both what the Bank does and how it does it, so as to respond more effectively to the changed circumstances, needs, and preferences of this group of countries.