Lao PDR has made notable progress in improving maternal health, with materanal mortality decreasing from 1,600 per 100 … addressed - the low utilization of maternal health (MH) services and weak financial protection, especially among the lower … wealth quintiles, in order to improve the level and equity of maternal health. In order to address these financial barriers …

Human capital is the combination of knowledge, skills and health that people accumulate throughout their lives, which … quality and availability of maternal and child health services more generally. Simply put, countries which invest heavily in …, the government of Malawi is implementing its ambitious Second Health Sector Strategic Plan (2017-2022) and an aligned …

, maternal, newborn and child health Services (RMNCHS) in Guinea-Bissau, to effectively improve their access and use by women and … children. Additionally, the research also explores aspects related to female genital cutting (FGC or FGM) and girls' access to … information on reproductive health. The demand barriers to improve access and coverage of quality of MCH services were previously …

significant reduction of external funding for health as a source of health financing. Assuming steady economic growth, Indonesia …The Indonesian health sector is currently experiencing a financing transition that will have a profound impact on the … country's efforts to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) and national health goals. The transition is marked, on the one …

equipment) to schools and Mothers' Groups, as well as individual incentives in the form of vouchers for VMMC were tested. The …This report presents an impact evaluation assessing the effect of incentives on improving the uptake of Voluntary … Commission of Malawi and implemented from December 2015 to April 2016. The primary research question was whether incentives can …

Commodity windfalls and private consumption have sustained Indonesia's growth despite a difficult global environment …. Indonesia's external vulnerabilities remain moderate. The fiscal stance has normalized reflecting faster fiscal consolidation … led Bank Indonesia (BI) to ease its pace of monetary tightening. The outlook remains stable as the economy normalizes …

children's human capital. Angola, a country where a third of the population lives in poverty and economic output is heavily …

that all children have access to quality education is paramount. The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is …