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Evaluating Health Projects. Lessons from the Literature.

Stout, S.; Evans, A.; Nassim, J.; Raney, L. - World Bank Group - 1996

The World Bank has become the world's largest lender in the health, nutrition, and population (HNP) sectors, requiring the institution to seek ever greater evidence that its work is effective on the ground. This paper reviews the literature on the causes of observed changes in health and...

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Innovations in Health Care Financing. Proceedings of a World Bank COnference, March 10-11, 1997

Schieber, G.J. - World Bank Group - 1997

This volume contains thirteen papers prepared for the World Bank Conference on Innovations in Health Care Financing, held in Washington, D.C., on March 10-11, 1997. Together these papers provide conceptual and practical policy prescriptions for financing health care systems in developing countries.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779925

Trends in Health Status, Services, and Finance. The Transition in Central and Eastern Europe. Volume II, Statistical Annex.

Chellaraj, G.; Adeyi, O.; Preker, A.S.; Goldstein, E. - World Bank Group - 1996

This cross-national study provides empirical evidence of some of the trends in health status, health services, and health care financing that have occurred in countries undergoing economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe. Evidence shows that the transition has led to a significant...

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Public and Private Roles in Health.

Musgrove, P. - World Bank Group - 1996

The appropriate role of the state in health is complex both in economic theory and in practice. Theory identifies three reasons for state action: public goods or services with large externalities (involving efficiency); poverty (involving equity); and failings peculiar to insurance markets for...

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A Survey of Health Reform in Central Asia.

Klugman, J; Schieber, G - World Bank Group - 1996

This paper surveys health reform in the former Soviet countries of Central Asia. Reform efforts are evaluated in the context of achieving the goals of improving people's health status, maintaining acces and equity, improving efficiency, increasing clinical effectiveness, and assuring quality and...

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Health Reform in Africa. Lessons from Sierra Leone.

Siegel, B.; Peters, D.; Kamara, S. - World Bank Group - 1996

Describes the elements of health reform in Sierra Leone as the West African nation attempts to overhaul its health system and focus it on the neediest populations. To highlight the role of key stakeholders, the study reviews the actions proposed and taken for reforming a package of health...

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Supreme Audit Institutions' Use of Information Technology Globally for More Efficient and Effective Audits

World Bank Group - 2021

Supreme audit institutions (SAIs) recognize the benefits of using technology to improve the quality and impact of their … possibilities created by advances in technology to develop new, innovative audit methods and procedures. It also seeks to identify … the factors inhibiting other SAIs in particular SAIs in developing countries from implementing and using audit methods …

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Cambodia : Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC); Accounting and Auditing

World Bank Group - 2021

Cambodia has achieved remarkable economic development and political stabilization in recent years. Continuous high growth has heightened demand for high quality financial reporting and auditing in the corporate sector and in the government sector. This report on the observance of standards and...

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Strengthening Oversight : Improving the Quality of Statutory Audits in the Philippines

World Bank Group - 2016

Since 2003, the Philippines have been striving to implement reforms aimed at improving audit quality. Oversight of the … audit profession is a key control over the financial reporting architecture of a country's private sector. A Quality … Assurance Review system over audit practitioners is a subset of oversight which serves as a key monitoring control over the …

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Corporate Sector Accounting and Auditing in the EU Acquis Communautaire, 3rd Edition

World Bank Group - 2016

the 2006 audit directive and a new audit regulation addressing oversight of the most significant audits were adopted in … with regard to public interest entities, while reducing the administrative burden for smaller companies. The new audit … audit directive and the regulation will bring more consistency in audit oversight and quality assurance systems across …

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