Saturday, March 10, 2007

What ever happened to that Commission?

I’ve been wondering what has been the outcome of the major report headed by Jeffrey Sachs a couple of years ago;

“The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH), established in January 2000 by former WHO Director-General Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, was made up of 18 of the world’s leading economists, public health experts, development professionals and policy-makers under the Chairmanship of Professor Jeffrey Sachs, then Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University.”


One of the recommendations included;

"The IMF and the World Bank should work with recipient countries to incorporate the scaling up of health and other poverty reduction programmes into a viable macroeconomics framework."


Has any follow-up been done? Comments appreciated.

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