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Out-of-pocket expenditures on health : a global stocktake
Wagstaff, Adam; Eozenou, Patrick; Smitz, Marc - 2019
World Bank income groups for all summary measures, along with correlations between the summary measures and macroeconomic …
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Understanding the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Vorisek, Dana; Yu, Shu - 2020
Development Goal-related spending to have distinct effects. Recent costing studies by the World Bank Group have been developed to … minimize the drawbacks of earlier studies. The paper also briefly reviews how the World Bank Group engages with stakeholders on …
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Citywide Inclusive Water Supply : Adopting Off-Grid Solutions to Achieve the SDGs
Misra, Smita - 2019
Today about 676 million urban residents, many of them poor, do not have access to the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) definition of "safely managed" water supplies. They receive an off-grid water supply service that is not safely managed, accessible, or affordable, and thus not compliant with...
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The 2019 update of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators Database : an overview
Wagstaff, Adam; Eozenou, Patrick; Neelsen, Sven; Smitz, Marc - 2019
This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators database. On the financial protection side, the changes include an increase in the number of indicators from five to 14; revisions to several previous data points,...
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An assessment of water, sanitation and hygiene access in Bangladesh’s community health clinics
Joseph, George; Alam, Bushra Binte; Shrestha, Anne; … - 2019
Adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities plays a critical role in ensuring improved health care utilization and reducing disease burden due to reinfection. WASH in health facilities is now gaining momentum with the new SDG targets that governments have vowed to...
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Mobilization effects of multilateral development banks
Broccolini, Chiara; Lotti, Giulia; Maffioli, Alessandro; … - 2020
This study uses loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital from private creditors. Controlling for a large set of...
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Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016 : Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change
2015 - Online-Ausg.
The Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016: Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change details the progress toward the global development goals and examines the impact of demographic change on achieving these goals. Part I examines global development progress, the unfinished development...
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Atlas of sustainable development goals 2017 : from World Development Indicators
Weltbank - 2017
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the data -- Introduction -- The world by income, FY2017 -- The world by region … the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas primarily draws on World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank … and scope of the SDGs, the editors have been selective, emphasizing issues considered important by experts in the World …
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Innovations in WASH Impact Measures : Water and Sanitation Measurement Technologies and Practices to Inform the Sustainable Development Goals
Thomas, Evan - 2009
The new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) at its core. A dedicated Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6) declares a commitment to "ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all." Monitoring progress toward this...
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Trade Developments in 2016 : Policy Uncertainty Weighs on World Trade
Constantinescu, Cristina - 2017
This edition of Global Trade Watch addresses three questions concerning recent trade developments: What is happening …? Why? Does it matter? 2016 is the fifth consecutive year of sluggish trade growth and the year with the weakest trade … performance since the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. Current estimates of growth in the volumes of trade in goods …
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