Up-Front Costs for Health Investments Elusive: Nigerian Finance Minister

From Commission on Smart Global Health Policy Thu Apr 24 2014, 14:16:02

While investments in health expenditures now have an updated economic rationale, thanks to The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health December report, finance ministers have another pressing question: where will the money come from? "The point is clear: investing in health pays. But we've got to pay for that investment in health," Nigerian Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said April 11 at the World Bank Group/IMF Spring meetings in Washington, D.C. She appeared with Lawrence Summers of Harvard University and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a session on universal health coverage.

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