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Take-home messages Challenges for all

Take-home messages Challenges for all. MDGs matter for poverty-reduction Mixed ½-time score; 2 nd half better? Effective interventions exist; they’re used too little For countries: Extra govt. health necessary, not sufficient Additional expend. needs to be targeted,

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Take-home messages Challenges for all

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  1. Take-home messagesChallenges for all • MDGs matter for poverty-reduction • Mixed ½-time score; 2nd half better? • Effective interventions exist; they’re used too little • For countries: • Extra govt. health necessary, not sufficient • Additional expend. needs to be targeted, • accompanied by broad strengthening of policies & institutions in health sector, and • supported by affordable & sustainable finance • For donors: • Integrating MDGs into assistance strategies & lending programs; intersectoral challenges • More aid, but needs to be timely, MDG-focused, coordinated, linked to PRSP & MTEF

  2. The MDGs matter for poverty-reduction Why the MDGs matter—i It’s the world’s poor who die earlier Global income quartiles

  3. The MDGs matter for poverty-reduction Why the MDGs matter—iiIll health causes poverty

  4. The MDGs matter for poverty-reduction Why the MDGs matter—iiIll health causes poverty Out-of-pocket payments for health care pushed 2.6m Vietnamese into poverty in 1998. Increased headcount by 23% and poverty gap by 25%

  5. The good news… Malnutrition: 80% of world’s population lives in on-track country U5MR: in 38% of countries, rate of decline increased in 1990s MMR: fast decline in 1990s in E Asia & Middle East & N Africa … and the bad U5MR: slow progress; getting slower Africa: lagging badly Challenges for all regions: Faster progress on some goals than others Poorest countries making slowest progress Poor people progressing more slowly? A mixed half-time score A mixed half-time score—iThe news isn’t all bad

  6. A mixed half-time score A mixed half-time score—ii Laggards even in regions doing well Target rate of reduction

  7. A mixed half-time score A mixed half-time score—iii Poor countries progressing slowest Target Target Target

  8. The good news… Additional downward pressure on mortality and malnutrition from Anticipated faster economic growth in all regions except E Asia Elimination of gender gaps in secondary education (MDG #3) Expanding access to drinking water (MDG #7) … and the bad Combined contributions of these stimuli appreciable but typically not enough They’ll be offset—at least in part—by slower changes within health sector (e.g. slower growth in attended deliveries) Will the second half go better? Prospects for the second halfSwings & roundabouts

  9. Plenty of effective interventions Effective interventions existThey need to reach more people Cause of death

  10. Rising to the challenges—countries Extra govt. health spendingNecessary, but not sufficient • Government health expenditure has bigger impact • on MMR than on U5MR • in countries with good policies & institutions, as measured by the Bank’s Country Policies and Institutions Assessment (CPIA) • Even in countries with high CPIA • relying on proportional scaling-up to get to MDGs would require much faster growth in share of GDP devoted to govt. health spending

  11. Rising to the challenges—countries Proportional scaling-upExpensive way of reaching MDGs

  12. Rising to the challenges—countries Targeting for bigger returns Returns to removing bottlenecks

  13. Rising to the challenges—countries Stronger policies & institutions Throughout & beyond health sector • Lowering barriers facing households • Improving service delivery through stronger accountability • Tackling HR & drugs constraints • Strengthening core public health functions • Securing affordable and sustainable health financing

  14. Rising to the challenges—countries HR recruitment & retentionMoney isn’t everything

  15. Rising to the challenges—countries Intersectoral challengesInfrastructure by itself isn’t enough

  16. Rising to the challenges—countries Spending what’s affordableWho does it? Who doesn’t?

  17. Rising to the challenges—development community Learning the lessons of DAHImplications for MDGs • Aid is too unpredictable, and the transaction costs are too high • Aid works better the better the policy environment • Aid can help foster good policies, and facilitate transition to them • Aid is fungible; points towards enhanced coordination, aid pooling, and putting countries in the driver seat • Global partnerships can add value, but contain risks

  18. Take-home messagesChallenges for all • MDGs matter for poverty-reduction • Mixed ½-time score; 2nd half better? • Effective interventions exist; they’re used too little • For countries: • Extra govt. health necessary, not sufficient • Additional expend. needs to be targeted, • accompanied by broad strengthening of policies & institutions in health sector, and • supported by affordable & sustainable finance • For donors: • Integrating MDGs into assistance strategies & lending programs; intersectoral challenges • More aid, but needs to be timely, MDG-focused, coordinated, linked to PRSP & MTEF

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