This article analyzes the extent to which the Basic Benefit Package (BBP), a subsidized health program in Armenia …, increases utilization and affordability of outpatient health care among the poor. The authors find that beneficiaries of the BBP …) than eligible users not receiving the BBP. However, even among BBP beneficiaries the level of outpatient health care …

This study examines the impact of a fee-waiver program for basic medical services on health care utilization in Armenia …. Because of the reduction in public financing of health services and decentralization and increased privatization of health … care provision, private out-of-pocket contributions are increasingly becoming a significant component of health costs in …

. Unequal societies may be holding back one segment of the population while helping another. Similarly, high levels of income … different steps of the income ladder to verify whether low, middle, and top income households fare differently in societies with … importance of total income inequality is dramatically reduced. These results are robust to different measures of inequality of …

aggregate shock. In a natural experiment set-up, it shows widening income inequality after the tsunami for income losses to the …

How do conditional cash transfers impact health-related outcomes? This paper examines the 2010 randomized introduction … visits by those already complying with program health conditions and by non-compliers -- disappeared after 2.5 years, largely … due to compliers reducing above-minimal visits. The study finds significant increases in take-up of health insurance and …

villages in Madhya Pradesh to measure the effect of the program on toilet access, sanitation behavior, and child health … collected baseline measures of sanitation conditions, behavior, and child health, and re-visited households 21 months later. The … child health outcomes (diarrhea, helminth infections, child growth). However, the exposure period was likely to have been …

Despite record economic growth for more than a decade, poverty has remained stubbornly high in Afghanistan, especially … the positive impact of aid and troops. According to the estimates, Afghan troops contributed more to poverty reduction …