growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence … from recent in-depth country work on the impact of government policies and service provision in health and basic education …

failures. Policy makers should improve access to and quality of health, education, and other social services. This means better …

The World Bank's health sector projects in Timor-Leste - the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and … the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project - have been among the few successful operations it has … resistance to the World Bank's health policy agenda compared to its policy agenda in other sectors. In terms of wider lessons, we …

demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002 …

the Health Impact Fund. Financed by many governments, the HIF would offer any new pharmaceutical product the opportunity … assessed global health impact of all HIF registered products. In exchange, the innovator would have to agree to make this … engender large global health gains …

’ selection and actual allocation decisions for health aid, using health aid data from the newly-created Institute of Health …

Self-selection into healthcare options biases estimates of the effects of healthcare on health outcomes. We exploit … exogenous variation in the cost of formal-sector care to show that the use of such care improves short-term health outcomes for … treatment and adhere to their medications. -- healthcare ; information ; child health ; Tanzania …

specific focus on the health sector. It provides policymakers, scholars, and development experts with innovative strategies and …