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Information is Power : Experimental Evidence on the Long-Run Impact of Community Based Monitoring

Bjorkman Nyqvist, Martina; Svensson, Jakob; De Walque, … - 2014

This paper presents the results of two field experiments on local accountability in primary health care in Uganda … significant improvements in health care delivery and health outcomes in both the short and the longer run. Efforts to stimulate … beneficiary control without providing information on performance had no impact on quality of care or health outcomes. The paper …

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Diet Quality, Child Health, and Food Policies in Developing Countries

Bhargava, Alok - 2014

Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental … a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes gradually affect child health, so it is helpful to use alternative tools …

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On Gender and Growth : The Role of Intergenerational Health Externalities and Women???s Occupational Constraints

Ag??nor, Pierre-Richard; Canuto, Otaviano; da Silva, … - 2012

This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health …

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What Makes Cities Healthy?

Yusuf, Shahid; Nabeshima, Kaoru; Ha, Wei - 2012

The benefits of good health to individuals and to society are strongly positive and improving the health of the poor is … a key Millennium Development Goal. A typical health strategy advocated by some is increased public spending on health … vaccines to ameliorate infectious diseases bedeviling the developing nations. But if the objective is better health outcomes at …

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Financial Inclusion and Economic Development

Ansar, Saniya; Klapper, Leora; Singer, Dorothe - 2025

This paper reviews the impact of financial inclusion on economic development outcomes. It highlights the benefits of financial inclusion, including greater savings, improved resilience to economic shocks, and higher levels of economic empowerment, among others. It looks deeper into both the...

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Informality in the Process of Development and Growth

Loayza, Norman - 2016

"Informality" is a term used to describe the collection of firms, workers, and activities that operate outside the legal and regulatory systems. It is widespread in the majority of developing countries--in a typical developing economy, the informal sector produces about 35 percent of gross...

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On the Impact of Demographic Change on Growth, Savings, and Poverty

Ahmed, S. Amer; Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da - 2016

Changing population age structures are shaping the trajectories of development in many countries, bringing opportunities and challenges. While aging has been a matter of concern for upper-middle and high-income economies, rapid population growth is set to continue in the poorest countries over...

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Financial Development, Growth, and Poverty : How Close are the Links?

Patrick Honohan - 2013

The causal link between finance and growth is one of the most striking empirical macroeconomic relationships uncovered in the past decade. As this branch of the literature matures, the focus shifts from growth to other aspects of economic prosperity, and from financial depth to multidimensional...

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Financial Development, Growth, and Crisis : Is There a Trade-Off?

Loayza, Norman; Ouazad, Amine; Rancière, Romain - 2017

This paper reviews the evolving literature that links financial development, financial crises, and economic growth in the past 20 years. The initial disconnect -- with one literature focusing on the effect of financial deepening on long -- run growth and another studying its impact on volatility...

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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies

McMillan, Margaret; Rodrik, Dani; Sepúlveda L., Claudia - 2017

Developing countries made considerable gains during the first decade of the 21st century. Their economies grew at unprecedented rates, resulting in large reduction in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. But more recently that progress has slowed with an economic...

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