The Economist Examines Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility Created To Help Fund Future Disease Outbreak Responses

The Economist: Fighting disease with finance: Pandemic bonds, a new idea
“…The World Bank says the probability of another pandemic in the next 10 to 15 years is high. That is why it has issued $425m in pandemic bonds to support its new Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF), which is intended to channel funding to countries facing a deadly disease…” (7/27).

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