The World Bank’s Africa Gender
Innovation Lab (GIL) conducts impact evaluations of
development interventions and leads policy research to
generate evidence on how to...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic
update for January 12, 2018 contains economic highlights,
including: Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita has said the
Government...
Accreditation and re-accreditation
requirements differ in existence, scope, and use across and
within countries. These differences affect facilities and
cadres of workers...
The synergies between rooftop solar PV
(RPV) and energy efficiency (EE) investments in the built
environment include lower specific transaction costs,
optimized RPV...
Type: BriefReport#: 122590Date: January 10, 2018Author:
Makumbe,Pedzisayi
In poorly resourced rural areas, most
local health services are ill-prepared to manage severe
complications or offer emergency surgical care. Saving lives
in an emergency...
The frontline of the health system
comprises the primary health care (PHC) system, the networks
of frontline health workers, and other public- or
private-sector services...
In the fragmented care systems of
rapidly growing cities, patients can get lost in the
shuffle. A cornucopia of providers is spread across the
public, private, and nonprofit...
In the most resource-constrained
settings, where the first five years of life represent a
critical window of vulnerability, the ability to adopt
healthier behaviors...
Bangladesh is known globally for its
considerable success in reducing poverty and advancing
development. With a vibrant economy that has grown at more
than 6 percent...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic
update for January 10, 2018 contains economic highlights,
including: (i) Indonesia’s retail sales rose 2.5 percent yoy
in November...
In mature health systems, specialty care
systems are well developed but integration between primary
care and specialty services can be poor or nonexistent,
leading to...
A move from the countryside to a
metropolis can offer new opportunities, but it can also
expose an individual to new lifestyles and behaviors that
put health at risk....
In mature health systems, emerging
health innovations require an adaptive and robust regulatory
regime, alongside accreditation standards that are useful to
consumers,...
Rural areas can face acute human
resource shortages of doctors, nurses, and other health
professionals. Health workers may perceive rural postings as
low-status, offering...
By 2050, sixty-eight percent of the
world's population is expected to live in urban areas.
As countries grow and urbanize, their disease burden shifts
toward noncommunicable...
Addressing the burden of chronic disease
begins at home. Many of the leading causes of ill health in
member countries in the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and...
Wealthy countries are aging rapidly,
driving higher usage of health services. Most members
countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD)...
Urbanizing countries can struggle to
ensure uniform minimum standards of care quality
particularly when the private sector grows quickly but
unevenly, with limited government...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic
update for January 9, 2018 contains economic highlights,
including: the government raised IDR 13.0 trillion from
Sharia denominated...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic
update for January 8, 2018 contains economic highlights,
including: Indonesia’s international reserves stood at
United States...
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