Global Infectious Diseases

As globalisation has increased average annual mortality due to global infectious diseases has reached more than 13 million. A number of initiatives have been launched to increase cooperation at the global level. However, some commentators have suggested that a market in ‘global merit goods’ could provide an effective strategy to a problem that is receiving ever more attention from policy makers and practitioners. 

For related content see:

Making Markets for Merit Goods: The Political Economy of Anti-Retrovirals by Kapstein and Busby

and

Promising Trends in Access to Medicines by E. Richard Gold and Jean-Frédéric Morin