Huffington Post published a blog by R4D President David de Ferranti on using prizes to promote life saving health tools. It discusses R4D's report that includes a review of proposals to offer a prize for a specific purpose: to spur the development of better diagnostic tests for tuberculosis, a disease that kills millions each year. By analyzing whether this specific idea would work, we learned quite a bit about what works with regards to targeted prizes in general.

To read the blog post on Huffington Post click here.