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Health Financing Options for Samoa : Challenges and Opportunities

Anderson, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

Samoa currently faces two important public policy challenges in the health sector. One is to stem, and then reverse, the rapid rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The second challenge is to put the country on a health-financing path that is effective, efficient, and financially affordable...

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Economic Costs of Inadequate Water and Sanitation: South Tarawa, Kiribati

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

The inadequate water supply and sanitation situation in South Tarawa has contributed to high rates of water … supply and sanitation infrastructure and ongoing operations and maintenance in South Tarawa, in part, as a result of low cost … estimate the total economic costs associated with inadequate water and sanitation services in South Tarawa. …

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Bangladesh: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance

El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world. Poverty remains high at 43 percent of the population subsist on less than United States (U.S.) $1.25 per day (2010). Bangladesh achieved several millennium development goal (MDG) targets in education, health, and poverty...

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Costed Plan for Scaling Up Nutrition: Nigeria

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2014

This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...

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The Potential for Integrating Community-Based Nutrition and Postpartum Family Planning: Review of Evidence and Experience in Low-Income Settings

Alvesson, Helle M.; Mulder-Sibanda, Menno - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

The objective of this review was to study where community-based family planning and nutrition programs have been integrated, how this has been accomplished, and what the results have been. Although family planning is a nontraditional intervention in community-based nutrition programs, it can...

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Understanding the Relationship between Government and BRAC in Implementing WASH Programme

Rahman, Hasanur; Ahmed, Shamim; Rashid, Mamun-Ur-; … - eSocialSciences - 2009

To explore the relationship between government and BRAC in the implementation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH …

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Water Scarcity Challenges in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Tropp, Håkan Tropp and Anders Jägerskog - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2006

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Economic and Health Effects of Increasing Coverage of Low Cost Water and Sanitation Interventions

Hutton, Guy Hutton, Laurence Haller and Jamie Bartram - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2006

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Water Governance Challenges: Managing Competition and Scarcity for Hunger and Poverty Reduction and Environmental Sustainability

Tropp, Håkan Tropp, Malin Falkenmark and Jan Lundqvist - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2006

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HDR 2006 - Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

water and adequate sanitation. Millions of women and young girls are forced to spend hours collecting and carrying water …

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