Updating Institutional Technologies: A Purpose-Driven Fund to End Extreme Poverty
A proposal for purpose-driven funds to end extreme poverty by harnessing digital cash transfer technologies and building on successful global health funding models.
brookings.eduOur contribution would be a drop in the bucket, and the bucket probably leaks. This book is an invitation to think again, again: to turn away from the feeling that the fight against poverty is too overwhelming, and to start to think of the challenge as a set of concrete problems that, once properly identified and understood, can be solved one at a
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SARPAM recruited patients to use their smartphones to report the prices they paid for different drugs. When they found major differences for the same drug between, say, Angola and Zimbabwe, SARPAM would take the evidence to the government, which would use it to negotiate effectively for a lower price.