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Differences in the private cost of health care between providers and satisfaction with services: results for sub-Saharan African countries
Tsimpo, Clarence; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The issue of whether faith-inspired providers are able to reach the poor depends in part on the cost of the health services provided. This paper relies on recent nationally representative household surveys for sub-Saharan African countries to assess to what extent the cost of healthcare is a...
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Mapping religious health assets: are faith-inspired facilities located in poor areas in Ghana?
Coulombe, Harold; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The Christian Health Association of Ghana is the largest federation of faith-inspired provider of health services in Ghana. With 168 hospitals and clinics at the time this paper was written, 70 percent of which are affiliated with the Catholic Church, the federation accounts for more than a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108896
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Benefit incidence of public health spending for public and faith-inspired health facilities in Ghana
Coulombe, Harold; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper uses the fifth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey collected in 2005-2006 to conduct a benefit incidence analysis of public spending for health. District-level financial data on public transfers are combined with household survey data on the use of various types of facilities...
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Making quality care available for the poor: faith-inspired health facilities in Burkina Faso
Gemignani, Regina; Tsimpo, Clarence; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Based on the results of qualitative fieldwork conducted in 2010 in Burkina Faso, this paper suggests that a key reason for individuals to seek care in faith-inspired health facilities is the fact that the cost of care is lower than in public facilities (the other reason being that faith-inspired...
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Impact sur la pauvreté et perceptions de la crise économique au Sénégal: Analyses quantitative et qualitative / Impact on Poverty and Perceptions of the Economic Crisis in Senegal:...
Fall, Abdou; Salmon, Léa; Wodon, Quentin - In: Perspective Afrique 5 (2010) 1-3, pp. 1-27
Cet article analyse l'impact de la crise économique (hausse des prix des denrées alimentaires et pétroliers et crise financière) sur la situation des ménages au Sénégal en se basant à la fois sur une analyse quantitative de données d'enquête auprès des ménages et une analyse...
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Education in Liberia: Basic Diagnostic Using the 2007 CWIQ Survey
Tsimpo, Clarence; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
been written on the education system in Liberia since the start of the conflict in large part because of lack of good data …. The chapter provides a diagnostic of Liberia’s education system as seen from the point of view of households using the new … providing education services. Data are also presented on household private spending for education, as well as on distances to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258632
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Health in Liberia: Basic Diagnostic Using the 2007 CWIQ Survey
Tsimpo, Clarence; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
As for education, little has been written on the health system in Liberia since the start of the conflict in large part …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259311
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Argentinas Crises and the Poor, 1995-2002
Cruces, Guillermo; Wodon, Quentin - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2003
This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151128
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Poverty among Cotton Producers: Evidence from West and Central Africa
Tsimpo, Clarence; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
World cotton prices have been declining in the past decade and farmers in West and Central Africa have been especially hard hit. This has led to heated policy debates and difficult trade-offs for governments, as their desire to help producers is constrained by the need to avoid large subsidies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260178
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Tendances et profil de la pauvreté au Cap-Vert de 2001 à 2007 : Analyses quantitative et qualitative
Backiny-Yetna, Propere; Carbonari, Flávia; Wodon, Quentin - In: Perspective Afrique 5 (2010) 1-3, pp. 1-34
Le Cap-Vert a bénéficié d’une croissance économique rapide au cours des dernières vingt années. Les études existantes indiquent que la part de la population en pauvreté a baissé de 49.0 pourcent en 1988-89 à 36.7 pourcent en 2001-02. Les résultats présentés ici suggèrent une...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547906