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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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The need for safety nets in Sub-Saharan Africa is vast. In addition to being the world’s poorest region, Sub-Saharan Africa is also one of the most unequal. In this context, redistribution must be seen as a legitimate way to fight poverty and ensure shared prosperity - and all the more so in...
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report thus argues that CCTs have been an effective way to redistribute income to the poor, while recognizing that even the … 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 … low- and middle-income countries. If made universally available, the provision of these 44 procedures would avert 1 …
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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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Men who have sex with Men (MSM) are currently at marked risk for HIV infection in Low- and Middle-Income Countries …
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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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