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pandemic bonds: How pandemic bonds became the world's most controversial investment


Synopsis
The harshest critics of the World Bank s experiment have questioned whether it’s appropriate to tie responsibility for public health to private investment at all.
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By Tracy Alloway and Tasos Vossos
In late January 2015, just after the deadliest outbreak of Ebola in history, then-World Bank President Jim Yong Kim stood in front of a group of Georgetown University students and professors to introduce a new approach to fighting pandemics.
Fresh from the annual gathering of power brokers and policy makers in Davos, Kim described a new type of financial product – “pandemic bonds” – that he hoped would persuade private investors to swell the World Bank’s coffers. Quoting former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, Kim said: “Investing in health is the right thing to do ethically and morally, but it s also the right thing to do if you can do basic arithmetic.” ....

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