Bangladesh is a country with over one third of the population living in poverty and another one third living just above poverty level. The World Health Organization (2010) indicates that Bangladesh has poor prenatal and postpartum care, nutritional deficiencies, high incidence of non-skilled...

Launched in 2005, the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is the Government of India's (GOI) largest public health programme.Using government data, this brief reports on NRHM expenditures along the following parameters: overall trends in fund allocation and expenditure: GOI and States,...

Background: The cost of rural health continues to be high in the United States despite an overall improvement in national health insurance enrolment. Stakeholder’s perception of adverse selection remains a paramount culprit in the challenges of rural insurance markets. Risk attitude has been...