Muhammad Mehedi Masud, Mohammad Nurul Azam, Muhammad Mohiuddin, Hasanul Banna et al.
Harald Winkler, André Felipe Simões, Emílio Lèbre La Rovere, Mozaharul Alam et al.
A key objective of developing countries is to provide affordable access to modern energy services in order to support economic and social development. The paper presents a number of arguments for why and in which way energy access and affordability can play a key role in national development program...
Simeen Mahmud
Abstract This article re‐assesses the effect of microcredit programme participation on women's empowerment by applying an analytical framework that recognizes the conceptual shift in emphasis in the definition of empowerment, from notions of greater well‐being of women to notions of women's choice a...
Syed Saad Andaleeb
This study compares the quality of services provided by public and private hospitals in Bangladesh. The premise of the paper was that the quality of hospital services would be contingent on the incentive structure under which these institutions operate. Since private hospitals are not subsidized and...
Owen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across 11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcare concentration curves against an equal distribution and Lorenz curves and across countries. The analysis reveals that the distribution of public healthcare is prorich i...
Shamal Chandra Karmaker, Shahadat Hosan, Andrew Chapman, Bidyut Baran Saha
Robin Boadway, Michael Keen
Hermen Ormel, Maryse Kok, Sumit Kane, Rukhsana Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: The recent publication of the WHO guideline on support to optimise community health worker (CHW) programmes illustrates the renewed attention for the need to strengthen the performance of CHWs. Performance partly depends on motivation, which in turn is influenced by incentives. This pape...
Shyama Kuruvilla, Julian Schweitzer, David Bishai, Sadia Chowdhury et al.
Reducing maternal and child mortality is a priority in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and will likely remain so after 2015. Evidence exists on the investments, interventions and enabling policies required. Less is understood about why some countries achieve faster progress than other compa...
Aliou Diagne, Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma, Diagne, Aliou et al.
This paper presents a new methodological framework for measuring the level and household to bear the additional risk. A household determinants of household access to credit and may also benefit from mere access to credit, even if it credit constraints, and the effects of access to credit is not borr...
Martin Ravallion
Welfare distributional effects in a food producing economy of changes in the relative price of food are analyzed, allowing for labor market responses. Conditions for signing the welfare effects are derived for a stylized agricultural household and are tested for Bangladesh. Point estimates suggest t...
Debra Singh, Joel Negin, Michael Otim, Christopher Garimoi Orach et al.
INTRODUCTION: Community health workers (CHWs) have been proposed as a means for bridging gaps in healthcare delivery in rural communities. Recent CHW programmes have been shown to improve child and neonatal health outcomes, and it is increasingly being suggested that paid CHWs become an integral par...
Anna Fruttero, Varun Gauri
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) play an increasingly important role in the delivery of public services in developing countries, but little systematic evidence is available about their strategic choices. We develop two stylised accounts of NGO strategies: one in which pragmatic and organisation...
Wayne R. Thirsk
No AccessRegional and Sectoral Studies1 Feb 2013Tax Reform in Developing CountriesAuthors/Editors: Wayne ThirskWayne Thirskhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-3999-0SectionsAboutPDF (1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:The eight case-study c...
Joseph A. Lewnard, Esmita Charani, Alec Gleason, Li Yang Hsu et al.
National action plans enumerate many interventions as potential strategies to reduce the burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR). However, knowledge of the benefits achievable by specific approaches is needed to inform policy making, especially in low-income and middle-income countries (L...