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Beyond the terrible toll in human lives and suffering, the Ebola epidemic currently afflicting West Africa is already having a measurable economic impact in terms of forgone output; higher fiscal deficits; rising prices; lower real household incomes and greater poverty. These economic impacts...
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target the right policies and programs to maximize the health and social impacts of Europe’s HIV responses and get higher …
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-Saharan Africa is also one of the most unequal. In this context, redistribution must be seen as a legitimate way to fight poverty and …
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report also considers the rationale for conditioning the transfers on the use of specific health and education services by …" between parents and their children; or if there are large externalities to investments in health and education. Political …
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effectiveness, cost, and cost-effectiveness of priority health interventions. The volume presents data on the surgical burden of … disease, disability, congenital anomalies, and trauma, along with health impact and economic analyses of procedures, platforms ….5 million deaths a year and rank among the most cost effective of all health interventions. Existing health care delivery …
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and on health care-are well known. They need only to be enacted and implemented. …
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This study answers the question: What are the results of the World Bank's Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP) for Africa. It documents the contributions of the MAP over the past five years, drawing on countries' survey and program data that are not usually captured in routine World Bank...
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rates have been consistently higher among MSM than for the general population of reproductive-age men virtually wherever MSM …
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Executive Directors continued to play an important role as the World Bank faced many challenges in a global post crisis economy. The Board considered a number of key documents in preparation for the committee on development effectiveness meetings. These included the World Development Report...
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World development indicators 2011, the 15th edition in its current format, aims to provide relevant, high-quality, internationally comparable statistics about development and the quality of people's lives around the globe. Fifteen years ago, World development indicators was overhauled and...
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