This publication provides a second technical update that reflects deteriorating global economic conditions following the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine combined with increasing inflation, and...
This advisory services and analytics (ASA) was conceived in late 2020, and work started during the first half of 2021. Due to the events in Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, the qualitative research - a...
This publication updates the analyses presented in the original discussion paper “From Double Shock to Double Recovery-Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19,” published...
Performance-based financing (PBF) is the transfer of funds to health facilities so they can provide a pre-agreed set of services according to appropriate standards of quality and administration. These...
Romania faces high levels of amenable mortality reflecting, in part, the relatively low utilization rates of high-quality primary health care (PHC), particularly for non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention...
Metropolitan areas drive economies, yet the same elements that contribute to economic growth, such as industrialization accompanied by migrant influx, result in overcrowding and poor housing and sanitation...
The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the global economy, either reversing or slowing ongoing efforts to eliminate extreme poverty in many countries. Despite recent progress, including increased recoveries...
Human development and development are inseparable, and now new evidence emerges that brain development is the key driving mechanism behind this association. The foundations of brain architecture are established...
Nepal has seen impressive improvements in health outcomes and has done well both in its rate of progress and relative to its income level. Infant mortality has been declining over the past five decades...
Nepal has seen impressive improvements in health outcomes and has done well both in its rate of progress and relative to its income level. Infant mortality has been declining over the past five decades...