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Globally, around 250 million children under the age of five do not meet key development milestones, which reduces their ability to reach their full...

• Social mobility
• Human capital
• Cognitive ability

Working Paper

Countering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major development challenge. This is so from an ethical perspective and because greater inequality is perceived to be detrimental to key...

• Inequality
• Growth
• Health

Working Paper

Although baseline data for post-conflict situations are frequently unavailable, there is a clear deterioration in the health conditions of populations during and following conflict. Excess mortality and morbidity, displaced populations, and...

• Health
• Social conflict
• War

Working Paper

Atmospheric emissions urgently need to reduce for natural gas to fulfill its potential role in the energy transition to achieve the Paris Agreement on climate change. This paper establishes the magnitude and trends of flaring and venting in oil and...

• Energy transition
• Gas
• Health

Working Paper

This second paper on hydrocarbon gas flaring and venting builds on our first, which evaluated the economic and social cost (SCAR) of wasted natural gas. These emissions must be reduced urgently for natural gas to meet its potential as an energy...

• Energy transition
• Gas
• Health

Journal Article

We implement a lab-in-the-field experiment among childcare workers in Chandigarh, India, to evaluate discriminatory attitudes of the Hindu workers toward Muslim children. We use a third-party allocation game that controls for selfish payoff...

• Discrimination in employment
• Field experiments
• Health

Book Chapter

Part of Book Social Mobility in Developing Countries

• Social mobility
• Human capital
• Cognitive ability

Blog

by Carl-Gustav Lindén March 2013

21 March 2013 In foreign aid, results are the buzz word of the day; evaluation, monitoring, and quality control are the means of demonstrating to...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Education
• Health

Blog

by Roger Williamson October 2013

17 October 2013 James Foster describes the importance of moving beyond income poverty as a way of assessing 'who is poor?' and 'how poor?'...

• Economic growth
• Education
• Poverty measurement

Journal Special Issue

The United Nations sustainable development goal (SDG) 3 seeks “to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all and at all ages”. To build healthcare systems that were able to progress towards the millennium development goals, many countries...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Can agricultural development programs improve health-related outcomes? We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of a large-scale agricultural extensionprogram in Uganda to causally identify its effects on malaria. We find that eligibility...

• Administrative law
• Agriculture
• Economic development

Working Paper

This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the earlier...

• Equality and inequality
• Health
• Income

Working Paper

There is a dearth of evidence on the evolution of occupational health in the developing world and on the extent to which it has been influenced by (1) the pattern of structural transformation in these economies and (2) integration with global markets...

• Structural change
• Health
• Globalization

Research Brief

• SDGs
• Poverty
• Growth

Working Paper

Nutritional status at a young age is positively associated with an individual’s total human capital accumulated. Higher levels of human capital are in turn strongly correlated with an individual’s economic and social well-being. Health is one such...

• Children
• Econometric models
• Health

Working Paper

In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and...

• Poverty
• Growth
• Nutrition

Blog

by Nana Mensah Abrampah June 2017

Improving the delivery of quality health services is messy! Vast amounts of knowledge and experience is being generated daily. We need to help capture...

• Health
• Quality of care
• SDG3

Working Paper

The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational...

• Education
• Health
• Public goods

Working Paper

The rapid economic growth experienced within the past two decades in China highly correlates with childhood overweightness. The epidemic has become an issue of grave concern. A principal factor considered to be responsible for the epidemic in the...

• Children
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Health

Journal Special Issue

The papers in this special issue were originally presented at a World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) Conference on Health Equity in 2006. They look beyond the current literature in terms of measures of inequality, indicators...

• Economic development
• Equality and inequality
• Health

Working Paper

This paper examines a broad range of opportunities for addressing the pressing human development needs of low-income countries by using new oil, gas, and mineral discoveries. It assesses how much of an impact can be made on the funding gaps for...

• Extractives
• Education
• Revenue

Working Paper

One-third of married women are sterilized in India. This is largely due to family planning programs that put a strong emphasis on ‘permanent’ contraceptive methods rather than temporary ones. However, little is known about potential adverse effects...

• Development
• Human fertility
• Gender

Blog

Primum non nocere — first, do no harm. This most basic tenet of medical care is routinely violated in clinics and hospitals around the world today...

• Quality of care
• Health
• SDG3

Working Paper

The quality of care provided by health systems contributes towards efforts to reach sustainable development goal 3 on health and wellbeing. There is growing evidence that the impact of health interventions is undermined by poor quality of care in...

• Health interventions
• Health systems
• Quality of care

Working Paper

Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that accounts for...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Game theory
• Health

Book Chapter

Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address this...

• Capital investments
• Economic development
• Health

Working Paper

Malaria still claims a heavy human and economic toll, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa. Even though the causality between malaria and poverty is presumably bi-directional, malaria plays a role in the economic difficulties of the region. This...

• Economic development
• Health
• Poverty

Working Paper

The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what are the household responses to cope with the economic burden of health shocks and if policy responses like state health insurance...

• Health
• Healthcare
• Households

Journal Article

Improvements in health-care quality can contribute to healthier populations. However, many global and national health strategies are not sufficiently considering the issues of measuring and improving health-care quality in lowresource settings. The...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Objective To develop a composite measure of primary care quality and apply it to Haiti’s primary care system. Methods Using the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative’s framework, we defined four domains of primary care service delivery: (i)...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Objective To evaluate the impact on the quality of the care provided for childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia in Bihar, India, of a large-scale, social franchising and telemedicine programme – the World Health Partners’ Sky Program. Methods We...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Objective To develop a novel measure to characterize human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) programme quality at health facilities in Kenya and explore its associations with patient- and facility-level characteristics. Methods We developed a composite...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Existing definitions and measurement approaches of quality of health care often fail to address the complexities involved in understanding quality of care. It is perceptions of quality, rather than clinical indicators of quality, that drive service...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Objective To evaluate the impact of a performance-based financing scheme on maternal and neonatal health service quality in Malawi. Methods We conducted a non-randomized controlled before and after study to evaluate the effects of district- and...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Objective To assess compliance with infection prevention and control practices in primary health care in Kenya. Methods We used an observational, patient-tracking tool to assess compliance with infection prevention and control practices by 1680...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Problem The lack of proper water and sanitation infrastructures and poor hygiene practices in health-care facilities reduces facilities’ preparedness and response to disease outbreaks and decreases the communities’ trust in the health services...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Working Paper

This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in children...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Economic development projects
• Health