Vaccines for the Developing World: The Challenge to Justify Tiered Pricing Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

This case examines the microeconomic pricing related to the sale of inexpensive vaccines for use in developing countries. Thing to describe the historical success of the United Nations so-called "tiered pricing" policy. This policy has allowed the World Health Organization to purchase large volumes of vaccine on the marginal production cost of vaccines, often only a few cents per dose, while the developed countries paid full average cost, often many times more. Changing political situation and the cost structure of new vaccines threatens decades of agreement, however. HKS Case Number 1450.0 "Hide
by Susan Rosegrant, Jose Gomez-Ibanez 16 pages. Publication date: 01 Nov 1997. Prod. #: HKS499-PDF-ENG

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