The Promotion of Investment Alliances by the World Bank

Lethbridge, Jane

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“…At the same time, such alliances have raised concerns over 'reverticalizing' health systems and further complicating the administrative requirements of international health assistance (Buse & Harmer, 2007: 263). Investment alliances in particular are monitored with skepticism regarding their ownership structures and the role of private companies with little healthcare knowledge beyond their domestic markets (Lethbridge, 2005;Attaran et al, 2006).…”

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Does Global Health Funding Respond to Recipients’ Needs? Comparing Public and Private Donors’ Allocations in 2005–2007

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2011

World Development

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Adding to official development assistance (ODA), private foundations have emerged as important donors to the global health agenda. Amid this increasing funder diversity and growing global health budgets, responsiveness to recipients' needs is a central concern. Merging datasets on ODA flows in 2005-2007, over 2,800 foundation grants, disease burden, and perceived priorities in 27 low-and middle-income countries, this study offers the first comprehensive national-level analysis of global health aid responsiveness. Our analysis shows that national patterns of disease burden explain neither public nor private aid flows during this period. While ODA committed during these years was weakly yet significantly correlated with health priorities, private grants' responsiveness was even weaker and did not achieve ODA significance levels either.

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Does Global Health Funding Respond to Recipients’ Needs? Comparing Public and Private Donors’ Allocations in 2005–2007

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2011

World Development

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“…The Bank plays an important role in health care policy in developing states, including some member states of the EU 9 . The Bank (1993) links health to development and advocates the privatization of some elements of health services as a way to improve the health of a state’s populace (Wagstaff 2001; Lethbridge 2005; Prah Ruger 2005). The approach is summarized in the following (World Bank 1993, pp.…”

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The European Union’s governance of health care and the welfare modernization agenda

Hervey

2008

Regulation & Governance

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In the face of “permanent welfare austerity,” the European Union (EU) is increasingly involved in the governance of health care through various “new governance” tools. This development coincides with a growing interest in modernization of welfare, including health care. One of the fundamental critiques of new governance in the EU context concerns the (perceived) inability of new governance to protect the “social” against the “market” in Europe’s constitutional settlement. Using multi‐level governance and constructivist approaches, this article considers whether the EU’s governance of health care via the “Open Method of Coordination” advances a neo‐liberal agenda of health care modernization.

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“…Many countries are improving their governance structures. For instance, in an effort to attract more FDI, the Lao PRD updated its investment legislation to ensure that multinational corporations receive fair and equal treatment, are protected from expropriation, can convert their profits into other forms of currency, and have access to Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms (Lethbridge, 2005).Vietnam delegated management of its FDI to lower-level bureaucracies (Tri & Anh, 2016).…”

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The Impact of FDI on Innovation in Developing Countries: The Mediating Role of Governance

Shamsub

2023

IJFEB

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While most studies in the existing literature focused on the direct relationship between FDI and innovation, this paper further analyzes whether governance in developing economies mediates this relationship. A 25-year cross-sectional time-series data from 1995 to 2019 were collected from the World Bank Development Indicators and the Worldwide Governance Indicators (2019) databases. This panel dataset was estimated using a system GMM. A novel finding emerged from the investigation: the positive impact of FDI on domestic innovation is mediated by two governance variables: voice and accountability and regulatory quality. This suggests that the impact of FDI on domestic innovation is strengthened when combined with the effects of mediating variables. The results imply that, in the absence of high governance quality, the traditional policy prescription—such as increasing government spending on R&D and education—may not be adequate to promote FDI's innovation spillovers. The findings suggest that governments in developing nations should work to improve the voice & accountability and regulatory quality indicators by ensuring that citizens take part in the decision-making to promote the flow of knowledge and information that fosters innovation. This will help to strengthen the influence of FDI on domestic innovations. In addition, the governments should foster an environment that is welcoming to foreign investment and implement the appropriate regulatory reforms, such as those that strengthen competition protection, property rights protection, and transparency in the operations of the organizations implementing policies.

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The Promotion of Investment Alliances by the World Bank

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

Does Global Health Funding Respond to Recipients’ Needs? Comparing Public and Private Donors’ Allocations in 2005–2007

Does Global Health Funding Respond to Recipients’ Needs? Comparing Public and Private Donors’ Allocations in 2005–2007

The European Union’s governance of health care and the welfare modernization agenda

The Impact of FDI on Innovation in Developing Countries: The Mediating Role of Governance

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