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Enrolment in Ethiopia’s Community Based Health Insurance Scheme

Sparrow, Robert; Debebe, Zelalem Yilma; Bedi, Arjun Singh; … - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2013

In June 2011, the Government of Ethiopia rolled out a pilot Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) scheme. This paper assesses scheme uptake. We examine whether the scheme is inclusive, the role of health status in inducing enrolment and the effect of the quality of health care on uptake. By...

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Rescuing exclusion from the poverty debate

de Haan, de Haan, A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2011

poverty analyses in India. While the poverty debate highlights the severe inequalities that groups based on social identity … are applied in analysis and policy, the role of these categorisation in India’s targeted poverty programmes and recent BPL …

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Healthcare Seeking Behavior among Self-help Group Households in Rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India

Bedi, Arjun Singh; Raza, Raza, W.A.; Panda, Panda, P.; … - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2013

insurance (CBHI) schemes have been functioning in rural India. These CBHI schemes may design their benefit packages according to … of India’s poorest states.1 We find that the majority of respondents do access some form of care and that there is …

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Ensuring daughter survival in Tamil Nadu, India

Bedi, Arjun Singh; Srinivasan, Srinivasan, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009

The south Indian state of Tamil Nadu is a relatively recent entrant to the list of Indian states exhibiting the phenomenon of "missing girls". A substantial proportion of these missing girls may be attributed to the differential survival of girls and boys in the 0-6 age group due to daughter...

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