This note describes the experience of RECURSO - the Spanish acronym for Accountability for Social Reform (REndicion de CUentas para la Reforma SOcial), a successful effort to create the missing link: high expectations. The RECURSO program provided the impetus for the establishment of...

For a variety of reasons, the governments of Central America have struggled to provide basic healthcare services to their rural and impoverished populations. The lack of incentives for healthcare personnel to reside in or even to travel to remote areas, along with the deep rural-urban and...

During the early 2000s, Argentina's total expenditures on health, as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), placed it among the top-20 countries in the world in per capita health spending. For example, Argentina spent 8.9 percent of GDP in 2000 and 10.1 percent in 2006. The per-capita...