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Digital Skills Development in EAP
World Bank - 2024
Unprecedented disruptions that COVID-19 pandemic caused to education compelled almost all countries of the world, including those of EAP region, to adopt education technology and online learning approaches to recover learning loss in the educational institutions. This necessitated development of...
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Indonesia's Doctors, Midwives and Nurses : Current Stock, Increasing Needs, Future Challenges and Options
World Bank - 2012
This paper is one of several inputs prepared for a comprehensive Health Sector Review that the Government of Indonesia is currently conducting. It compiles, analyzes and interprets available information on Indonesia's health service providers; doctors, midwives and nurses. Within the limitations...
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The Nurse Labor and Education Markets in the English-Speaking CARICOM : Issues and Options for Reform
World Bank - 2012
The present report concludes the second phase of the cooperation between Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries and the World Bank to build skills for a competitive regional economy. It focuses on the nurse labor and education markets of the English-speaking (ES) CARICOM. The topic was...
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Analyzing markets for health workers : insights from labor and health economics
McPake, Barbara; Scott, Anthony; Edoka, Ijeoma - World Bank - 2014
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Hospitality Assured
World Bank - 2025
The tourism and hospitality sector are a key driver of Sub-Saharan Africa's economic growth, and a major source of foreign reserves and jobs: the sector has the potential to add 168 billion dollars in domestic revenue and foreign exchange, to strengthen supply chains, and to create over 18...
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Ghana : Tracking Public Resource Flows in Schools and Clinics
World Bank - 2012
An accurate estimate of public expenditure flows must start from the distribution and recording systems which would permit accurate tracking. While the strategies to improve these systems in Ghana are beyond the scope of this study, it presents here the problems encountered while trying to track...
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The Challenge of Ensuring Adequate Stocks of Essential Drugs in Rural Health Clinics
World Bank - 2012
Health experts and policymakers want people to have access to affordable and high-quality medical care. But in some developing countries, making quality healthcare available may first necessitate ensuring that essential medicines are available, such as anti-malaria pills and antibiotics. The...
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The Challenge of Ensuring Adequate Stocks of Essential Drugs in Rural Health Clinics
World Bank - 2014
Health experts and policymakers want people to have access to affordable and high-quality medical care. But in some developing countries, making quality healthcare available may first necessitate ensuring that essential medicines are available, such as anti-malaria pills and antibiotics. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560953
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Fixing the Public Hospital System in China
World Bank - 2010
reform process, public hospital management. First, the paper reviews the history of public hospital reform, discusses … hospital functions and responsibilities, and describes the structure and supply of health services. Second, it describes the … main policy issues facing public hospitals, including financing sources and the hospital market environment. Third, it …
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Establishing Day-Surgery Units in Sri Lanka's Hospitals
World Bank - 2023
Sri Lanka has a universal healthcare system that extends free healthcare to all citizens. However, the rapidly ageing population and growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) challenge the effective and timely provision of public healthcare services. The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2022...
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