Blog

by Malokele Nanivazo April 2012

Malokele Nanivazo Sexual violence crime (SV) in wartime is not a new phenomenon. Mass rapes have occurred in armed conflicts in Rwanda, Kosovo...

• Crime
• Education
• Humanitarian assistance

Working Paper

Researchers often rely on household survey data to investigate health disparities and the incidence and prevalence of illness. These self-reported health measures are often biased due to information asymmetry or differences in reference groups. Using...

• Equality and inequality
• Healthcare
• Public health

Working Paper

• Decision making
• Health
• Healthcare

Working Paper

Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient. What then should be...

• Economic development
• Education
• National security

Journal Article

To assess the effectiveness of non-clinical interventions against acute respiratory infections and diarrhoeal diseases among young children in developing countries.

• Healthcare
• Public health

Blog

by Lawrence Haddad February 2015

In the run up to the announcement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) in September every development issue is clamouring for attention. The...

• Climate change
• Environment
• Equality and inequality

Working Paper

Estimating the impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic on economic growth is challenging because of endogeneity concerns. In this paper, we use novel data on male circumcision and distance from the first HIV outbreak as instrumental variables for the HIV/AIDS...

• Economic growth
• Human capital
• Macroeconomics

Working Paper

Notwithstanding the unprecedented attention devoted to reducing poverty and fostering human development via scaling up social sector spending, there is surprisingly little rigorous empirical work on the question of whether social spending is...

• Education
• Public expenditure
• Government spending policy

Working Paper

The reduction in deaths from diarrheal diseases is one of the significant public health successes of the twentieth century. That said, the disease still accounts for a significant burden of childhood morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Public health

Working Paper

This paper discusses shifts in development assistance for health (DAH) since 1990, analyses the nature of the current distribution of funding, and considers future implications. Based on Jamison et al. (1998) and Frenk and Moon (2013), we introduce...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• Health expenditures

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

• Food security
• Food supply
• Humanitarian assistance

Working Paper

Preventable and treatable childhood diseases, notably acute respiratory infections and diarrhoeal diseases are the first and second leading causes of death and morbidity among young children in developing countries. The fact that a large proportion...

• Children
• Economic development
• Public health

Working Paper

The World Bank’s health sector projects in Timor-Leste—the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project—have been among the few successful operations it has funded in that...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Planning
• Public health

Research Brief

While the majority of interventions against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria had positive short-term effects, these were frequently not translated into long-term sustainable results. Cash transfers may have the potential of reducing HIV...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Microeconomics
• Public health

Book Chapter

Part of Book Social Provision in Low-Income Countries

• Game theory
• Health
• Healthcare

Book Chapter

Part of Book The Quality of Life

• Decision making
• Health
• Healthcare