Political Economy for Health Blog
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This blogsite is a resource of the People’s Health Movement. Its purpose is to provide a platform for discussion of the applications of political economy to the struggle for health. (The People’s Charter for Health provides an overview of PHM’s analyses and objectives: the ‘struggle for health’).
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Operation ‘save capitalism’ in America
By C.P. Chandrasekhar in Frontline 7 March 2025 Make no mistake: Trump and his team do not wish to destroy the US state; they aim to capture it and make it even more an instrument to serve the rich. If the first month of Donald Trump’s second term as US President is any indication, global…
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Resources on Pandemic Treaty
The 13th session of the INB closed on 21 Feb 2024. See report of INB13 here. See also, courtesy of Health Policy Watch, the status of the draft treaty at the beginning of INB13, here. Useful sites for following the development of the draft treaty: INB Index page; HPW Pandemic Treaty Collection; Medicines, Law and…
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Controlling capital: Inflation targeting and external vulnerabilities in the Brazilian economy
Fernando Rugitsky, Phenomenal World, 21 Feb 2025 Central banks are back in the spotlight. After more than three decades of low inflation in rich countries, the rise in prices observed between 2021 and 2023 forced academic discussions into the public sphere. Such debates are not restricted to technical economic issues but deal explicitly with the…
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PEPFAR under review: what’s at stake for PEPFAR’s future
Jirair Ratevosian et al (22 Feb 2025) in Lancet 405(10479),603-5 The US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) faces a pivotal moment, confronting one of its most challenging periods since its launch in 2003. The new policy priorities of the administration of US President Donald Trump, along with reports of 21 abortion services performed under…
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American Workers vs. Surveillance Capitalism: The Future of Digital Trade Policy
By Burcu Kilic in CarrCentre Commentary (Kennedy School, Harvard), 10 Feb 2025 It has only been a few weeks since President Trump’s inauguration, and already, the relationship between political power and tech power has fundamentally shifted. Big tech CEOs not only had the front-row seats at the inauguration and received VIP treatment on Capitol Hill,…
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The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism
By Tine Hanrieder & Leon Janauschek, 18 Feb 2025 in Review of International Political Economy International institutions increasingly promote ‘ethical recruitment’ as a standard for health worker migration from poor to rich countries. We analyze how this notion is interpreted in a country considered to be an exemplary, ‘ethical’ recruiter of international nurses. In Germany, international…
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“Stop looking north, look to the world”. Can we imagine Global Health without the USA at its centre
By Cristian Montenegro and Sebastian Fonseca in PLOS Global Public Health, 14 Feb 2025 “Colombia, stop looking north; look to the world.” These are some of the words used by Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, in response to U.S. president Donald Trump’s economic threats— themselves a reaction to Petro’s initial refusal to accept U.S. military planes carrying deported…
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Rethinking food security monitoring in crisis
New briefing paper released by FIAN 20 Feb 2025 FIAN International has released a new briefing paper (available in English, Arabic, Spanish, and French) that explores the ongoing issue of ineffective monitoring in situations of crises, including starvation and famine, worldwide, with a specific focus on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system. In…
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Healthcare financing in the post-COVID world
By Indranil, 4 Nov 2021, in People’s Health Dispatch The way health systems are financed has a lot to do with the distribution of health inequities around the world. If rich countries were to change their approach to health financing, everyone would benefit. The models chosen for financing health systems have a profound impact on…
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The Trump Effect: pushing global health to the brink
In Part 1 of an n-depth analysis, Dr B Ekbal examines the potential global health impact of Donald Trump’s presidency, drawing parallels to his past healthcare policies Originally published in People’s Health Dispatch, 6 Feb 2025 President Donald Trump, in his second term, has made a series of decisions that have significantly undermined the global…
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