We use data from seven low and middle income countries with diverse drug procurement systems to assess the effect of centralized on prices, provide a theoretical mechanism that explains this effect. Our empirical analysis is based exhaustive sales quantities expenditures over three years for forty important molecules. find drugs by public sector leads lower prices but induced price reduction sm...

Although globalization has created ample opportunities and spaces to share experiences and information, the diffusion of ideas, especially in global health, is primarily influenced by the unequal distribution of economic, political and scientific powers around the world. These ideas in global health are generally rooted in High-Income Countries (HICs), and then reach Low- and Middle-Income Coun...