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Myanmar Improving Public Financial Management for Health Services : Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Service Delivery in the Wake of COVID

World Bank Group - 2020

Myanmar exhibits poor health outcomes and lags regional peers. Myanmar's Human Capital Index (HCI) score is 0.47, compared to a regional average of 0.60. Every year, 2,000 pregnant women and 50,000 children die from preventable causes, and 29 percent of children under age 5 are stunted. While...

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Guinea-Bissau : Service Delivery Indicators Report - Health

World Bank Group - 2019

Guinea-Bissau meets many, if not all, criteria that characterize health systems in fragile states. The country's health system faces persistent challenges related to low public spending, poor infrastructure, inadequate supply of health workers, inadequate clinical and managerial training...

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External Assessment of Quality of Care in the Health Sector in Colombia

World Bank Group - 2019

This report presents findings from an assessment of quality of care in the health sector in Colombia, using a novel methodology developed by the World Bank Group to assess government oversight, promotion and stewardship of quality of care in the health sector. This assessment of quality of care...

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Delivering Quality Health Services: A Global Imperative

OECD; OECD; World Bank Group - 2018

governments, health services and their workers, together with citizens and patients need to urgently take. …

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Household and Intrahousehold Impact of the Grameen Bank and Similar Targeted Credit Programs in Bangladesh.

Pitt, M.M.; Khandker, S.R. - World Bank Group - 1996

Group-based lending programs for the poor have become a focus of attention in the development community over the last several years. To date, there has been no comprehensive investigation of their impact on household behavior that has been sufficiently attentive to issues of endogeneity and...

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Public Expenditure Reform under Adjustment Lending. Lessons from World Bank Experiences

Huther, J.; Roberts, S.; Shah, A. - World Bank Group - 1997

The World Bank has helped define expenditure reform in 83 countries from 1979 to 1994 through 219 operations. Refrom efforts, through conditions for loans and credits, have focused on reducing and restructuring capital expenditures, reducing subsidies, reforming public employment, cutting the...

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Case Studies in War-to-Peace Transition: The Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Ethiopia, Namibia, and Uganda.

Colleta, N.J.; Kostner, M.; Wiederhofer, I. - World Bank Group - 1996

A successful demobilization and reintegration program (DRP) for ex-combatants is the key to an effective transition from war to peace. The success of this first step following the signing of a peace accord signals the end to organized conflict and thereby provides the security necessary for...

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Cost Sharing in the Social Sectors of Sub-Saharan Africa: Impact on the Poor.

Adams, A.V.; Hartnett, T. - World Bank Group - 1996

This study reviews the African Region of the World Bank's current thinking on cost sharing and the poor as apllied in Sub-Saharan Africa. It inventories country experiences and Bank activities in cost sharing for education and health, reviews African experiences with the implementation of cost...

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Private Infrastructure in East Asia. Lessons Learned in the Aftermath of the Crisis.

Baietti, A. - World Bank Group - 2001

Private participation in infrastructure has taken two distinct forms in the developing world. The first model, applied primarily in Latin America, focuses on privatization of existing infrastructure assets. The second, applied largely in East Asia, focuses on retaining existing assets in the...

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Strengthening Hospitals for a Post-COVID-19 Future in Poland

World Bank Group - 2021

of this analysis is to identify pragmatic steps to improve hospital performance in Poland and propose actionable short … this study. In addition to studying the hospital sector and the reform experience to date, the study team has held focused … upon expertise in hospital evaluation and management, health economics, and health services research, the study team …

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