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strategy (NSSS), was launched in 2015 and presented a comprehensive pension reform program towards a universal participatory … pension system that is fully funded, covering the elderly and destitute, private sector salaried and informal workers, and … current civil service pension systems and processes, reviewing the use of information technology to transit employees from the …
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). Policy discussions were held about reform options in January 2019 during a workshop on South Asia Civil Service Pension …, Karachi and Lahore in October, 2019. This report evaluates the current civil service pension scheme and suggests options to … consider for pension policy and parameter reforms to improve sustainability, equity and predictability. Actuarial projections …
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Afghanistan has made strong gains in health outcomes, health service coverage andhealth systems performance since 2003, with a particular impact on women and children's health. All told, Afghanistan has made notable progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets for...
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Health care demand price elasticies are often estimated from samples conditioned to include only sike people. This paper shows that not only may such estimates be statistically biased, but even when properly estimated they can only be interpreted as short-run price responses.
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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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