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<p class=""><b>Financing Global Health 2013: Transition in an Age of
Austerity</b><span style="color:windowtext"></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Financing Global Health 2013:
Transition in an Age of Austeri-ty, IHME’s fifth annual report on global health
expenditure, depicts financing trends that underline the resilience of de-velopment
assistance for health. </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">This year’s updated estimates
show that despite lackluster economic growth and fiscal cutbacks in many
developed countries, total assistance re-mained steady, reaching an all-time
high of $31.3 billion in </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">2013. While annual increases
have leveled off since 2010, continued international funding is a sign of the
international development community’s enduring support for global health. </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">The report also shows shifts in
sources of financing. As funding from many bilateral donors and development
banks has de-clined, growth in funding from the GAVI Alliance, the Global Fund
to Fight AIDS, Tuberculo-sis and Malaria, non-</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">governmental organizations, and
the UK government is counter-acting these cuts. Development assistance for
different health issues is tracked up to 2011, revealing that the greatest
in-crease in funding was for mater-nal, newborn, and child health. </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Full report </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/sites/default/files/policy_report/2014/">http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/sites/default/files/policy_report/2014/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>Global poverty could
be up to a third higher than reported</b></p>
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<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">With over one billion people in the world living on less than
$1.25 per day, the World Bank aims to end 'extreme poverty' by 2030. But new
research suggests that global poverty figures could be underesti-mated by up to
a third, and calls for more robust measurement in the future. </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">The World Bank figures are widely used by the international
communi-ty and play a significant role in international strategies to reduce
poverty. Critics argue that its esti-mates are flawed because the </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">dollar a day' poverty line is too arbitrary, and
insufficiently an-chored to any specification of basic human needs. </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Researchers at the University of Bristol looked at those
living on the Pacific island state of Vanuatu, taking into account not just
their finances but also shelter, sanitiza-tion, water, information, nutrition,
health and education to build up a more comprehensive picture of poverty, deprivation
and inequality. </span></p>
<p class=""><span style>The
study, published today in the </span></p>
<p class="">Journal of Sociology, concludes that the World Bank is
reporting a 'rosy' picture because the poverty line is set too low due to its
nar-row definition. </p>
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">See: <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140410194646.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_health+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Health+News%29">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140410194646.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_health+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Health+News%29</a></span>
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