Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls

Understanding the promise and pitfalls of performance incentives fits squarely into the Center for Global Development’s broader contributions to improvements in the effectiveness of development assistance. By bringing innovations to light, and providing policy guidance based on real-world experience, Eichler, Levine, and the contributors to this book highlight an alternative way for donors to support accelerated health improvements while inducing enduring changes in the way health care is financed, provided, and used. The authors do a great service by bringing together in one volume a discussion of incentives
on the supply and demand sides and by tapping into knowledge from the United States and the United Kingdom. Seeing the growing interest in the application of performance incentives, I expect that this book will be a valuable resource for many years to come.