Similar Search Results

Expanding Access to Improved Sanitation for the Poor : Insights from the Philippines

International Finance Corporation - 2018

The Philippines is home to around twenty five million of the 2.3 billion people worldwide who lack access to a basic … 2005, to undertake a three-part study that would assess the reasons why low income urban households in the Philippines … this study are to provide context for the sanitation conditions of low-income communities in the Philippines and to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645046

Who Serves the Poor? Surveying Civil Servants in the Developing World

Rogger, Daniel - 2017

, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of civil …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246171

Structural reforms and productivity growth in emerging market and developing economies

Dabla-Norris, Era; Ho, Giang; Kyobe, Annette - 2016

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436763

Monetary Control Procedures and Financial Reform : Approaches, Issues, and Recent Experiences in Developing Countries

International Monetary Fund - 1989

Many countries have initiated reforms in their monetary control procedures by relaxing direct controls and increasing the role of market processes. The changed approach is often inevitable when countries reform their financial systems in support of growth and adjustment. This is because reform...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396083

Philippine Health Sector Review

World Bank - 2011

The Philippines health sector is at a critical stage in its transformation. While the country has undertaken several … the challenges and future policy directions for accelerating the transformation of the Philippines health sector for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247560

Learning from developing country power market experiences : the case of the Philippines

Rudnick, Hugh; Velasquez, Constantin - 2019

Philippine power sector (since coal is imported). The case of the Philippines' power market highlights the importance of adequate …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004797

Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 9) : Improving Health and Reducing Poverty

Jamison, Dean T. - 2009

As the culminating volume in the DCP3 series, volume 9 will provide an overview of DCP3 findings and methods, a summary of messages and substantive lessons to be taken from DCP3, and a further discussion of cross-cutting and synthesizing topics across the first eight volumes. The introductory...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644090

On the front lines of the fight against poverty

Corral, Paul; Irwin, Alexander; Krishnan, Nandini; … - 2020

"Extreme poverty is in retreat today across much of the world, but Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations (FCS) are a stark exception. Not only is extreme poverty rising in economies characterized by conflict and fragility, but poor people in FCS are more likely than the poor elsewhere to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644281

Who is Poorer? : Poverty by Age in the Developing World

Evans, Brooks - 2015

This note shows that based on headcount poverty rates, at the household level, households with elderly members are roughly equally poor to non-elderly households, though with variation when using more detailed compositions, and the elderly are less poor than children in 98 percent of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644510

Within Our Grasp : A World Free of Poverty

Kim, Jim Yong - 2013

Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group discusses the opportunity to create a world free from the stain of poverty and economic exclusion. He states that the environmental challenge is a fundamental threat to economic development and the fight against poverty in the world. He believes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644641