Documents et rapports
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Child labor : issues, causes and interventions (anglais)
Child labor is a pervasive problem throughout the world, especially in developing countries. Africa and Asia togethere areccount for over 90 percent of total child employment. Child labor is especially...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 14845 Date du document: 30 juin 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Siddiqi, Faraaz,Patrinos, Harry Anthony
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Swimming against the tide: strategies for improving equity in health (anglais)
The evidence shows that government spending for health in many developing countries benefits the well-to-do more than the poor. However, a combination of favorable political forces and sound public policies...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 14567 Date du document: 31 mai 1995 Auteur: Birdsall, Nancy,Hecht, Robert
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International migration : implications for the World Bank (anglais)
Increased awareness of the volume and direction of international population movements has been accompanied by growing awareness that migration is linked -- often in ways that are poorly understood -- to...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 14568 Date du document: 31 mai 1995 Auteur: Russell, Sharon Stanton
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Technology, development and the role of the World Bank (anglais)
Knowledge and information are increasingly becoming the key factors of production and exchange, and this has major implications for developing countries and for such international development institutions...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 14388 Date du document: 30 avril 1995 Auteur: Dahlman,Carl J.
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Incentives and provider payment methods (anglais)
The mode of payment creates powerful incentives affecting provider behavior and the efficiency, equity and quality outcomes of health finance reforms. This paper examines provider incentives as well as...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 14053 Date du document: 31 mars 1995 Auteur: Barnum,Howard Nelch,Kutzin, Joseph,Saxenian,Helen
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Literacy and primary education (anglais)
Literacy rates represent the most telling indicators of a country's educational status. The core of mass public education, and hence the starting place for literacy for most of the world's population...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 14052 Date du document: 28 février 1995 Auteur: Chowdhury, Kowsar P.
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Egypt : recent changes in population growth (anglais)
This paper examines the determinants and consequences of population growth in Egypt in the recent past and the near future. Since slowing the growth rate of population has long been the objective of Egyptian...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13987 Date du document: 28 février 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cochrane, Susan H.,Massiah, Ernest E.
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Cost-effectiveness and health sector reform (anglais)
The World Bank's 1993 World Development Report (WDR): Investing in Health makes extensive use of the concept the global burden of disease to measure the state of health of a population and, together with...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13946 Date du document: 31 janvier 1995 Auteur: Musgrove,Philip A.
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Evaluation of integrated human resource programs (anglais)
Human resources programs are evaluated by comparing the productivity of individuals who have benefited from a specific program to the productivity of similar individuals who have not had this benefit...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13945 Date du document: 31 janvier 1995 Auteur: Schultz,Theodoro Paul
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Physician behavioral response to price control (anglais)
The need to constrain escalating health care cost is one of the major challenges facing health care systems. It is often argued that price control is an effective tool for reducing both the level and the...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13809 Date du document: 31 décembre 1994 Auteur: Nguyen Xuan Nguyen
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Public and private secondary schools in developing countries (anglais)
This paper presents the results of recent research comparing the relative effectiveness and efficiency of private and public secondary schools in five developing countries, which show a robust private...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13672 Date du document: 30 novembre 1994 Auteur: Lockheed,Marlaine E.,Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.
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The costs of discrimination in Latin America (anglais)
Indigenous, ethnic, racial and linguistic minorities worldwide are in an inferior economic and social position vis-a-vis the mainstream population. The ethnic concentration of poverty and inequality is...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13801 Date du document: 30 novembre 1994 Auteur: Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Integrated approaches to human resource development (anglais)
Development priorities among human resource programs should be determined primarily on the basis of expected productive returns on these investment activities, arrived at in much the same manner as among...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13797 Date du document: 30 novembre 1994 Auteur: Schultz,Theodoro Paul
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Labor market insurance and social safety nets (anglais)
This paper makes a distinction between social safety nets and welfare states and argues that while the former are needed because of the ubiquitousness of risk in human life, the case for the latter is...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13651 Date du document: 31 octobre 1994 Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.
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Institutional development in third world countries : the role of the World Bank (anglais)
Institutional development is becoming a dominant theme for development assistance as a result of an increasing appreciation of the complex interrelations that link institutions, organizations and the process...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13685 Date du document: 31 octobre 1994 Auteur: de Capitani, Alberto,North, Douglass C.
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Integrated early child development : challenges and opportunities (anglais)
Over the past two decades, attention to and demand for early childhood programs has grown worldwide as a result of: (a) an increasing number of parents employed outside the home in environments where the...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13650 Date du document: 31 octobre 1994 Auteur: Young,Mary Eming
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Getting the most out of pharmaceutical expenditures (anglais)
This paper reviews the major policies that countries employ to rationalize drug expenditures in terms of their impact, administrative costs, and relevance to different types of health care systems and...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13526 Date du document: 30 septembre 1994 Auteur: Saxenian,Helen
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Notes on education and economic growth : theory and evidence (anglais)
An extensive literature indicates that a substantial proportion of the rate of growth of the economy can be attributed to increases in the educational level of the labor force. Recent theoretical advancements...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13613 Date du document: 30 septembre 1994 Auteur: Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Procurement of pharmaceuticals in World Bank projects (anglais)
World Bank financing for pharmaceuticals has grown to over US $300 million per year, and this trend is likely to accelerate because of the growing size of the population, health and nutrition portfolio...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13525 Date du document: 30 septembre 1994 Auteur: Broun,Denis D.
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HRO working paper series abstracts numbers 1-35 (anglais)
This document is a compilation of abstracts of working papers numbered 1 - 35 prepared for the Human Resources Development and Operations Policy working papers series, published between March 1993 and...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13527 Date du document: 31 août 1994