The health of the population in Guinea is also one of the determinants of poverty, owing to its impact on the ability … administrative region. In terms of the poverty level of households, consultation rates among households in the first and second … average. Health sector financing remains weak. …

drastically. Income poverty remains high. People’s access to energy, water, communications, education, and health services …This Second Progress Report on Tajikistan’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) discusses key developments in the … status and dynamics of poverty-related indicators in the country during 2004. Although economic growth has generated …

The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) prepared by the Burkinabè government forms the principal benchmark for all … development actors, and reaffirms the urgency of attacking poverty from a structural perspective. It is the primary tool for …

Samoa currently faces two important public policy challenges in the health sector. One is to stem, and then reverse …, the rapid rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The second challenge is to put the country on a health-financing path … the share of government expenditure to health; (4) increasing external and donor financing; (5) increasing specific taxes …

Universal Health Coverage is a powerful framework for a nation aiming to protect their population against health risks … health coverage and improve financial protection in the last two decades. The country study, first, takes stock of UHC … progress in Vietnam, examining both the breadth and the depth of health coverage and assessing financial protection and equity …

in the transition countries that joined the European Union in 2004 than in the other, lower-income transition economies. …

This paper reviews Mongolia’s Economic Growth Support Poverty Reduction Strategy (EGSPRS) Implementation Progress …

This paper describes the nature and evolution of poverty in Nigeria between 1985 and 1992. It highlights the potential … and welfare. The headcount measure of poverty in Nigeria declined from 43 percent to 34 percent between 1985 and 1992 …. Decomposing the factors causing the reduction in poverty shows that the overall decline of 9 percentage point was the net result …

We analyze the performance of kernel density methods applied to grouped data to estimate poverty (as applied in Sala …-i-Martin, 2006, QJE). Using Monte Carlo simulations and household surveys, we find that the technique gives rise to biases in poverty … estimates, the sign and magnitude of which vary with the bandwidth, the kernel, the number of datapoints, and across poverty …