In principle, the efficiency of poverty-oriented social programs can be increased dramatically through "targeting" an infelicitous term applied to efforts to focus development programs more directly on the poor. By one widely-cited estimate, a set of "perfectly targeted" programs -- that is,...

Los servicios de salud pueden contribuir considerablemente a mejorar las condiciones de salud de los grupos menos favorecidos. Sin embargo, tal como queda claro en este documento, los servicios de salud respaldados por Gobiernos o por organismos como el nuestro, suelen no llegar a las personas...

Health services can make an important contribution to improved health conditions among disadvantaged groups. Yet as the contents of this volume make clear, the health services supported by governments, and by agencies like ours too often fail to reach these people who need them most. This is not...

This paper is an inquiry into the possibility of progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets for health that does not significantly benefit the disadvantaged people whom the MDGs are intended to serve. The possibility arises because the MDGs health targets, unlike most other...

This guide introduces inter-country programs concerned with poverty, equity, and health. The guide consists of two sections: Section one provides information about fourteen multi-country programs: Initiative on equity in Health and Health Care; Global Health Equity Initiative; Comparative Study of...