Ron Ashkin

Ron Ashkin

Ron Ashkin is team leader on the DFID-funded Private Sector Innovation Programme for Health, exploring the markets in which poor people pay for-profit providers for health care in Kenya. Specializing in effective implementation, Ron is a Harvard and Wharton educated economist with more 30 years’ global development experience in both consulting and corporate settings.

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Fully engaging the private sector in health systems development

Fully engaging the private sector in health systems development

about 9 years ago // Making Markets Work

The next generation of private sector involvement in health care development will bring on board commercial players who understand mainstream pro-poor business models and have their own funds to invest — just plain enterprise, not social enterprise. In this guest column, development economist Ron Ashkin talks about getting the business models and the incentives right in order to reach the mass market sustainably.