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International Money Fund: Are the tradeoffs fair and acceptable when it comes to population health?

Photo of International Monetary Fund lettering on side of building

A study published in World Development by three researchers affiliated with the Harvard Pop Center (former Bell Fellow Adel Daoud, faculty member S V Subramanian, and the 2017 recipient of the Sissela Bok Ethics and Population Research Prize Anders Herlitz, reviews already existing policy-evaluation studies, finding that International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies “on balance show that IMF policies, in their pursuit of macroeconomic improvement, frequently produce adverse effects on children’s…

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Anders Herlitz awarded the Sissela Bok Ethics and Population Research Prize

The Harvard Pop Center has awarded Anders Herlitz, PhD, a research fellow and visiting scientist in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with a $5,000 research grant. Herlitz was selected for infusing ethical considerations into his population science research. The Prize is named after longtime Harvard Pop Center member Sissela Bok, a philosopher, ethicist, and writer who has spent her renowned…

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