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Alec Morton¹, Ashwin Arulselvan¹, Ranjeeta Thomas²

¹Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom.

Journal of Health Economics

|February 16, 2018

Summary

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Global health donors should fund slightly cost-ineffective interventions. This strategy encourages countries to invest their own resources, promoting efficient, fair, and sustainable disease control efforts.

Keywords:

Bilevel programming Development aid Game theory Global health Resource allocation Stackelberg game

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Area of Science:

Global Health
Health Economics
Development Economics

Background:

Major donors like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation significantly impact global disease reduction.
Current approaches often prioritize interventions based solely on cost-effectiveness ratios.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose an alternative framework for allocating global health aid.
To argue for funding interventions that are just cost-ineffective for recipient countries, thereby stimulating domestic resource contribution.

Main Methods:

Developed a theoretical model based on a leader-follower game.
Analyzed scenarios where a donor subsidizes country-implemented health interventions.
Proposed a decision rule for aid allocation.

Main Results:

The proposed algorithm suggests funding interventions that are marginally cost-ineffective for the country.
This approach incentivizes countries to co-finance health initiatives.
The model demonstrates justification within a game theory framework.

Conclusions:

Aid allocation should strategically fund interventions to encourage domestic resource mobilization.
This method offers a more efficient, equitable, and sustainable approach to global health funding.
The proposed decision rule balances donor support with national commitment.