Africa Fighting Malaria is concerned that the World Bank's malaria program does not comply with WHO technical guidelines. The shortcomings of the World Bank's program were exposed in the Lancet in April 2006 and again by AEI's Roger Bate in a recent working paper. Here, Roger Bate looks at the World Bank's malaria matrix. AFM welcome's the bank's attempts to measure the effectiveness of their malaria spending, but as Dr Bate discusses, there are concerns about the quality of data as well as the logic behind the World Bank compiling this information. Unfortunately, there does not appear to be a logical division of labor between the World Bank and the World Health Organization and other Roll Back Malaria partners.

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Roger Bate is a resident fellow at AEI.