The objectives of the Health and Nutrition Project were to raise the quality, coverage, and effectiveness of family … planning, nutrition, and basic health services through the provision of support to critical and strategic elements of the … Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) sector. This was the first International Development Association (IDA)-financed health …

There is a substantial debate over the direction of the causal relation between income and health. This is important … for our understanding of the health production process and for the policy debate over improving healthcare. We instrument … longitudinal data (1991-94) of over 4,000 individuals in 51 villages in Tanzania. A 10% increase in income reduces the number of …

, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda, and 22,746 health workers. These data were gathered under the Service …This paper assesses the quality of health care across African countries based on health providers' clinical knowledge …, unannounced visits, and visual inspections of facilities, this study assesses whether health providers are available and have …