Data from 190+ countries exposes failures to adequately fund health care at the height of the pandemic, and trends that have worsened inequalities between countries over the past 20 years

See @HRW's new analysis of the global and national trends here ⬇️
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BREAKING: Income #inequality high or rising in 60% of countries with loans from IMF and World Bank.

Read more: oxf.am/SpringMeetings…

#IMFMeetings #WBGMeetings

🧵 As the World Bank & IMF hold their #SpringMeetings & #CSPF2024 in DC next week, join the discussions at our parallel events throughout the week on critical ways to #FightInequality thru progressive #tax , #debt & economic governance policies + investing in #PublicSystems 👇

#FirstpostAmerica : A public hospital in Kenya's capital Nairobi has laid off 100 doctors amid a month-long nationwide strike. In place of the striking doctors, the Kenyatta University Referral Hospital has hired five foreign medics. | Eric K. Ham

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I spent a day at Kisumu General Hospital with one of my pals who was interning there. The things I saw with my eyes I’ll never recover from. Intern Docs are actually the primary care doctors in a lot of hospitals. Consultant docs usually do rounds then off they go to their…

What does the World Bank do (well) in education?

A new Center for Global Development paper by Biniam Bedasso & Justin Sandefur suggests it has mostly failed to reorient its work toward learning but is doing more of what it does do well: getting more kids into pre-primary education

cgdev.org/blog/what-does…

DFI investment model in health care proven dangerously flawed in upholding human rights in health care and incapable of delivering safe investments in contexts of inadequate Govt regulation. 👏👏👏Linda Oduor-Noah Anna Marriott Anjela Taneja in Health&HumanRights #HHR
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There are so many important lessons to learn about international development from this awful case (thread).

1. Consider for a moment how ridiculously easy it is to do consequential stuff in low-income countries.

❗️❗️After two in depth investigations by The Intercept into a World Bank cover-up a child sex abuse scandal at a for profit school network in Africa, the World Bank has finally acknowledged wrongdoing.

WB head Ajay Banga in an email to staff apologized to the victims and…

nehawadekar Here is the email from Ajay Banga to World Bank staff. If I were petty I’d say he ought to have apologized to The Intercept too. Why he fought against doing/saying this for so long and so hard is mystifying, because he wasn’t even in charge amid all the wrongdoing. In any event,…

It'll be a real tragedy & missed opp. to show true leadership World Bank if survivors dn't receive the support &compensation they deserve. From what we 👂🏽, the current action plan falls short. IFC should do better& commit to true remedy Oxfam Washington DC Accountability Counsel Inclusive Development International

Watch the full #FertileDeception exposé on Africa Uncensored's YouTube channel. Below are the links to parts 1 and 2.
Part 1: youtu.be/JKiked2dJ1g
Part 2: youtu.be/bCwjv1tWGNw

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The #KCBFoundation is looking for a Gender & Inclusion Manager to ensure financial inclusion of women in Kenya. Passionate about decent Work? Access to productive capital? Expert in gender work? This is your job #GenderJobs #IkoKaziKE

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How did Nairobi end up with sudden intensification instead of an incremental one?
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Kenyan consumers have been overcharged KES 70.35 billion in power bills over 5 years due to illegal charges by EPRA, Business Daily & ELCOS Kenya analysis reveals.

The monthly fuel surcharge inflated by up to KES 4.4/unit, ignoring set formulas.

Kenya has been lent $1.5bn by international financiers at a staggering 10.375% interest rate

None of the money will be invested, just used to pay a previous debt to the same companies

$155m will leave Kenya every year, and the Kenyan people will see nothing in return

The hangover of poor borrowing choices ten years ago is here. Kenya is going after one of Africa's most expensive Eurobonds - largely to settle our first Eurobond. How'd we get here? Africa Uncensored has been tracking Kenya's debt since 2019. Here's a short thread, beginning with…