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This note provides practical guidance to national governments about key priorities for the education sector following a … major disaster or crisis. It specifies a set of considerations and actions to help ensure that the education sector can: (1 …
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will differ in education, health, public transport, or land administration. Yet at this sectoral juncture, public sector …
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The government's public financial management (PFM) Reform Program 2016-2020 foresees the gradual transition of public sector financial reporting from a cash basis to an accrual basis of accounting and the application of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS). This will...
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building initiated under phase one. Phase two also includes an analysis of the efficiency of public spending in education. As …
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The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) crisis is unique and requires tough policy choices for managing the public sector wage bill to best achieve the difficult balance between fiscal consolidation, protection of lives and livelihoods, service delivery, and job restoration. In the emergency phase, the...
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While on-track for child health and maternal health MDGs, Lao PDR continues to have some of the worst maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes, both globally and in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. Under-five and infant mortality rates are high relative to GDP per capita, and utilization...
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Lao PDR has made notable progress in improving maternal health, with materanal mortality decreasing from 1,600 per 100,000 births in 1990 to 220 in 2013.1 However, in order for further gains to be realized, at least two barriers need to be addressed - the low utilization of maternal health (MH)...
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This policy note provides an overview of government health financing in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR), with an added focus on health center financing. The note summarizes overall trends in health outcomes and government health financing over 2000-2014 and analyzes trends in planned...
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Thailand has succeeded in expanding coverage of publicly-funded and publicly-managed health insurance schemes, following the introduction of universal health coverage policy in 2001. While Thailand's achievement of universal health coverage (UC) is well noted, recent researches and studies have...
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analysis is based on a World Bank tool developed as part of the systems approach for better education results (SABER …) initiative that aims to systematically assess education systems against evidence based global standards and good practice to help … countries reform their education systems to help ensure learning for all. School health policies are a critical component of an …
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