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A Commitment to Vaccination Index: Measuring Government Progress toward Global Immunization

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  • Amanda Glassman
  • Juan Ignacio Zoloa
  • Denizhan Duran

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Vaccination is among the most cost-effective health interventions and has attracted ever greater levels of investment from public and private funders. However, some countries, mainly populous lower-middle-income countries, are lagging behind in vaccination financing and performance. In this paper, Amanda Glassman, Juan Ignacio Zoloa, and Denizhan Duran discuss the rationale for investing in vaccination and construct a metric to measure countries’ commitment to vaccination that would promote accountability and better tracking of performance. Conceding data limitations, they find that populous middle-income countries, which stand to gain tremendously from increased vaccination uptake, show poor performance in vaccination outcomes and that donors may also benefit from higher marginal returns in these countries.

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  • Amanda Glassman & Juan Ignacio Zoloa & Denizhan Duran, 2012. "A Commitment to Vaccination Index: Measuring Government Progress toward Global Immunization," Policy Papers 9, Center for Global Development.
    • Handle: RePEc:cgd:ppaper:9
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