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The reforms of the Colombian Health System in the last decade have sought to position primary health care (PHC) as an essential strategy to guarantee integrated and comprehensive care of the population's health needs. The Primary Health Care approach includes three integrated, interdependent...
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While the incidence of COVID-19 in Belize has subsided, the lasting healthand economic impacts caused by the pandemic have demonstrated theneed to build a resilient health system. The most recent figures from theStatistical institute of Belize confirm that there have been over 60,000cases and...
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they spread widely. The final set focuses on advanced case management and surge response during an epidemic or pandemic …
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This evaluation assesses the quality of the World Bank's early response to the COVID-19 crisis and the initial steps toward recovery, focusing on the health and social response. It concentrates on the relief stage and support to restructure systems in the first 15 months of the pandemic...
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Pakistan is facing yet another balance of payment crisis. Authorities have taken some corrective measures and negotiated a 39-month stabilization program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Nonetheless, inflationary pressures increased during FY19. Current account deficit narrowed as...
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Reducing gender inequality could increase GDP per capita by more than a fourth in Niger by 2030. These significant economic gains would be generated by enabling women to have the same earnings as men and reducing fertility and thereby population growth. Investing in girls' education and reducing...
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resources. Mortality and fertility rates in DRC are among the highest in the world. The Health System Strengthening for Better …
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resources. Mortality and fertility rates in DRC are among the highest in the world. The Health System Strengthening for Better …
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The India Development Update for April 2015 has two main aims. First, it reports on the key developments over the past …
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India has achieved much in the last 25 years. Since the early 1990s, when reforms began, growthrates have been higher … the last few quarters has generated worried commentaries about India's growth potential. The questions being raised are …" for India's growth potential? What sets of policies, structural or cyclical, might be needed to revive growth? In this …
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