Using Vietnam’s latest National Household Survey data for 2001-2002 this paper assesses the influence of individual, household and commune-level characteristics on a woman’s decision to seek prenatal care, on the number of prenatal visits, and on the choice between giving birth at a health...

Understanding the factors affecting the utilization of health services is essential for health planners, especially in low income countries where increasing access to and use of health services is one of the main policy goals of government. While much has been written on adult health-seeking...

This paper examines the effect of aid on domestic savings in Sub-Saharan Africa. It departs from the previous literature on aid and savings in developing countries by abandoning the pervasive, but untenable, assumption that all aid is used to expand the trade deficit and thus applied wholly to...