August 2001Children's health improves on average as a result of policy interventions that expand access to piped water …. However, the gains largely bypass children in poor and poorly educated families.The effects of public investments aimed at … directly improving children's health are theoretically ambiguous, since the outcomes also depend on indirect effects through …

The effects of public investments aimed at directly improving children's health are theoretically ambiguous, since the … influencing the incidence of child health gains from access to piped water in rural India. Using propensity score matching methods …, they find that the prevalence and duration of diarrhea among children under five are significantly less on average for …

This paper provides an overview of the history of development research at the World Bank and points to new future …. Second, development thinking is in a state of flux and uncertainty; it is time to reconsider both the Bank’s research … grounded in the key knowledge gaps for development policy emerging from the experiences of developing countries, including the …

what extent this function plays an enabling role in facilitating the task of quality improvement in primary education. On … the basis of content analysis of the data from the official records of four Block Education Offices located in Karnataka …