{"id":987784808,"date":"2025-09-17T17:55:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/?post_type=documents&#038;p=987784808"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:56:03","slug":"avoiding-trillion-dollar-delays-pooled-pandemic-financing-to-reduce-global-losses","status":"publish","type":"documents","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/documents\/avoiding-trillion-dollar-delays-pooled-pandemic-financing-to-reduce-global-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding trillion-dollar delays: Pooled pandemic financing to reduce global losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;TO BE EDITED &#8211; TEXT &#8211; Click on the WHEEL icon to open the text-area where you can type your text. Add a paragraph to introduce the Document&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"109\" data-end=\"705\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgdev.org\/\">Center for Global Development (CGD)<\/a> has released a working paper by Ruchir Agarwal, <em data-start=\"205\" data-end=\"289\">Avoiding Trillion-Dollar Delays: Pooled Pandemic Financing to Reduce Global Losses<\/em> (September 2025). The paper underscores how the absence of a coordinated financing mechanism during COVID-19 forced countries to secure resources independently, leading to inequities in access and delayed responses. Low- and middle-income countries, often at the back of the queue for vaccines and treatments, suffered disproportionate health and economic consequences, amplifying the global cost of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"707\" data-end=\"1198\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Agarwal argues that timely and predictable health financing is central to future pandemic preparedness. He proposes <em data-start=\"823\" data-end=\"843\">Day Zero Financing<\/em>\u2014a pooled, pre-approved liquidity line backed by multilateral development banks and donors\u2014to enable swift and equitable access to essential countermeasures. By ensuring rapid resource mobilisation, such a mechanism could limit economic disruption, save lives, and represent one of the most cost-effective tools for strengthening global health security.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Global Development (CGD) has released a working paper by Ruchir Agarwal, Avoiding Trillion-Dollar Delays: Pooled Pandemic Financing to Reduce Global Losses (September 2025). The paper underscores how the absence of a coordinated financing mechanism during COVID-19 forced countries to secure resources independently, leading to inequities in access and delayed responses. Low- and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3024,124],"document_type":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987784808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/documents"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987784808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987784808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987784821,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987784808\/revisions\/987784821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987784808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987784808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987784808"},{"taxonomy":"document_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document_type?post=987784808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}