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A review of external assistance and aid effectiveness for maternal and child health : challenges and opportunities

Bhutta, Zulfiqar Ahmed; Aleem, Samia - 2013

This paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards these specific interventions has varied greatly over...

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Do bigger health budgets cushion pandemics? : an empirical test of COVID-19 deaths across the world

Cooray, Arusha; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya; De … - 2020

How has government healthcare spending prepared countries for tackling the COVID19 pandemic? Arguably, spending is the primary policy tool of governments in providing effective health. We argue that the effectiveness of spending in reducing COVID deaths is conditional on the existence of...

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Healthcare equity and COVID-19 : assessing the relative effectiveness of egalitarian governance and healthcare system capacity on the COVID-19 pandemic

Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya; Cooray, Arusha; De … - 2020

Scholars of public health typically focus on societal equity for explaining public health outcomes. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a spate of studies showing a tight connection between inequitable access to healthcare, welfare services, and adverse outcomes from the pandemic. Others...

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Impact of post-conflict development interventions on maternal healthcare utilization

Badiuzzaman, Muhammad; Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2016

We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Our work varies from conventional impact evaluation studies because of the inclusion of two post-conflict psychosocial risks: the household's...

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Quality of care : measuring a neglected driver of improved health

Akachi, Yoko; Kruk, Margaret E. - 2017

The quality of care provided by health systems contributes towards efforts to reach sustainable development goal 3 on health and wellbeing. There is growing evidence that the impact of health interventions is undermined by poor quality of care in lower-income countries. Quality of care will also...

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Pro-poor growth in Indonesia : challenging the pessimism of Myrdal's Asian Drama

Timmer, Charles Peter - 2018

This chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia's development prospects. This pessimism … Dutch colonial policies) and the extreme poverty witnessed in rural areas. Using historical and modern data on the …

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The individual poverty incidence of growth

Lo Bue, Maria C.; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2019

evaluate the dynamics of the poverty impact of growth in Indonesia, by comparing the 1993-2000, 2000-07, and 2007-14 growth …The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the …

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Dynamic impacts of lockdown on domestic violence : evidence from multiple policy shifts in Chile

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Brito, Emilia; Clarke, Damian; … - 2021

We leverage staggered implementation of lockdown across Chile's 346 municipalities, identifying dynamic impacts on domestic violence. Using administrative data, we find lockdown imposition increases indicators of distress related to domestic violence, while decreasing domestic violence reports...

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the state in Bihar

Kumāra, Avināśa; Kumar, Manish - 2022

This paper presents a critical analysis of official data related to COVID-19 in Bihar state, India, which points to the manipulation of data for political ends. The ruling party's claim that the state managed the COVID pandemic brilliantly seems more politically motivated than scientific. We...

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The impact of foreign aid on maternal mortality

Banchani, Emmanuel; Swiss, Liam - 2019

In 2010, the G8 placed renewed focus on maternal health via the Muskoka Initiative by committing to spend an additional US$5 billion on maternal, newborn, and child health before 2015. Following the end of the Millennium Development Goals and the advent of the Sustainable Development Goals,...

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