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This paper investigates the impact of World Bank development policy operations on the quality of economic policy during the period 1998-2015. A new theoretical framework distinguishes among three effects that have been conflated hitherto: (a) marginal impacts of additional policy actions within...
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This paper experimentally examines efforts aimed at improving health worker performance in the context of the 2014 … accountability interventions to government-run health clinics-one focused on community monitoring and the other gave status awards to … clinics, patient satisfaction with the health system, and child health outcomes. During the crisis, the interventions led to …
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on the quality of public health services. The program had a strong emphasis on organizing women, who also identified … health services as a development priority at baseline. Assessing the program at midline, the paper finds that the … mobilization effort alone had a significant impact on the performance of village-based health providers. The study detects …
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This paper assesses the quality of health care across African countries based on health providers' clinical knowledge …, unannounced visits, and visual inspections of facilities, this study assesses whether health providers are available and have … sufficient knowledge and means to diagnose and treat patients suffering from common conditions amenable to primary health care …
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The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender...
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This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …
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