This brief includes the following
headings: the economy grew 6.9 percent in the second quarter
of 2014 lower than expected inflation; central bank adopts a
looser monetary...
Nepal has made a remarkable progress in
achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
especially in extreme poverty and education. Nepal has
achieved MDG 5 but...
Maldives, a middle income country, is on
track to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs), while gender gap requires attention. Maldives has
made great...
India is the third largest economy and
has the second largest population in the world. It achieved
millennium development goal (MDG) on poverty reduction;
however, gender...
Pakistan remains one of the
region's poorest performers against MDG targets.
Progress toward education, gender, and health MDGs are off
track. Despite slow progress,...
In 2005 about one in every five maternal
deaths and one in every three neonatal deaths globally
occurred in India (Lim, 2010). Two out of three deaths were
reported...
Type: BriefReport#: 93548Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Rajan,Vikram Sundara ;
Rao-Seshadri,Shreelata
Increasing recognition that investments
in early childhood development (ECD) are essential for
children to reach their full potential has led development
agencies, including...
Type: BriefReport#: 93206Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Sayre,Rebecca Kraft ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
This issue focuses on communities in
Colombia at high-risk to natural disasters. Policymakers
continue long-term efforts to understand the scope of the
problem and target...
This note highlights research using
administrative data from the Georgian Tax Authority to
estimate the effects of special tax regimes for micro and
small enterprises...
Bangladesh has made significant economic
progress and remarkable strides in many areas of human
development. The last three-year trend in gross domestic
product was...
Type: BriefReport#: 93554Date: November 1, 2014Author:
El-Saharty, Sameh ;
Ahsan, Karar Zunaid ;
May, John F.
Afghanistan's health services in
the immediate post conflict period were in a deplorable and
chaotic state. In 2002, its maternal mortality ratio was the
second highest...
Type: BriefReport#: 93546Date: November 1, 2014Author:
El-Saharty,Sameh ;
Sayed,Ghulam Dastagir ;
Mohmand, Khalil Ahmad
A child's earliest years present a
window of opportunity to improve outcomes later in life. A
growing body of literature demonstrates that lack of
investments in children...
Type: BriefReport#: 93787Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Denboba, A. ;
Mclin,Monica Ellen ;
Neuman,Michelle J. ;
Sayre,Rebecca Kraft ;
Ying,Wang Y. ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
Safe disposal of children’s feces is as
essential as the safe disposal of adults’ feces. This brief
provides an overview of the available data on child feces
disposal...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a
set of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease,
cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and diabetes that are
on the rise...
Type: BriefReport#: 93389Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Sanjoaquin, Miguel
Bangladesh is among the most densely
populated countries in the world. Poverty remains high at 43
percent of the population subsist on less than United States
(U.S.)...
It is already well known that the main
provider of primary health care (PHC) in Cambodia is the
private sector and that only one in three patients visits
the public...
Type: BriefReport#: 93386Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Sanjoaquin,Miguel
Global growth in 2014 is currently
estimated at about 2.6 percent, almost unchanged from the
slow pace seen in 2012 and 2013. The recovery in advanced
economies has...
This briefing draws on discussionsat a
workshop held by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI)and
the Law and Development Partnership (LDP)2 in September
2014. The...
Type: BriefReport#: 119831Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Denney,Lisa ;
Kirwen,Erika
The royal Cambodian government (RCG) has
achieved remarkable progress in recent years in reducing the
poverty rate by more than half. However, the majority of
those...
Type: BriefReport#: 93385Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Sanjoaquin, Miguel
The key actors in Bangladesh's
Health, Population and Nutrition Sector Development Program
(HPNSDP) are the public sector, nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs), the...
Type: BriefReport#: 93547Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Al-Sabir, Ahmed ;
Alam, Bushra Binte ;
El-Saharty, Ssameh
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