#IFFIm vaccine bonds which collateralise aid to borrow from the private sector have so far cost at least 4% in admin and interest, but we guess that costs will end up north of 10% when it eventually shuts down.

Blended finance to the rescue? Subsidies, vaccine bonds and matching funds in global health To close persistent global health financing gaps, policymakers have in recent years promoted the idea of ‘blended finance’, i.e. the strategic use of public funds to attract additional private sect...

New article about #blendedfinance in #globalhealth. Prof. McNeill and I ask whether private finance can fill globalhealth funding gaps, looking at #IFFIm, #AMCs and #matchingfunds. Unfortunately, it's not looking too good... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....