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The World Health Organization’s (WHO) health accounts team launched its much-awaited annual Global Health Expenditure Report on December 8, 2022. The report is a major effort of not only the WHO team, but also of the countries that submitted their valuable data. This blog summarizes a few of my reflections on the report, building on what I shared during the WHO’s panel event marking its launch—including the importance of addressing inequalities, the role of tracking health spending as part of surveillance, and the challenges of data gaps.

The Open Contracting movement, pushing to make government procurement worldwide considerably more transparent and efficient, has been a huge success. Today, more than 50 countries and cities are implementing policy changes from open electronic bid processes and publishing contracts to posting inspection reports.