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  • Reducing Geographical Imbalances of Health Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa

    A Labor Market Perspective on What Works, What Does Not, and Why

    by Christophe Lemiere, Christopher Herbst, Negda Jahanshahi, Ellen Smith, Agnes Soucat ...
    Series Book 209 - Africa Human Development Series
    The human resources crisis in the health sector has been gathering attention on the global stage. To date, however, most of this attention has focused on shortages of health human resources (HRH) at the national level. At least as important are problems at the sub-national level. Massive geographic and skill mix imbalances are reflected in the perilous undersupply of HRH in most rural areas. ... Read more

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  • The Human Resources for Health Crisis in Zambia: An Outcome of Health Worker Entry Exit and Performance within the National Health Labor Market

    by Herbst,Christopher; Vledder,Monique; Campbell,Karen; Sjöblom,Mirja; Soucat,Agnes ...
    'The Human Resources for Health Crisis in Zambia' is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank?s ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion.Despite reporting some health gains since the 1990s health outcomes remain poor in Zambia and it will be very challenging to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals ... Read more

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  • Reducing Geographical Imbalances of Health Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Labor Market Prospective on What Works What Does Not and Why

    by Lemiere Christophe; Herbst Christopher; Jahanshahi Negda; Smith Ellen; Souca Agnest ...
    The human resources crisis in the health sector has been gathering attention on the global stage. To date however most of this attention has focused on shortages of health human resources (HRH) at the national level. At least as important are problems at the sub-national level. Massive geographic and skill mix imbalances are reflected in the perilous undersupply of HRH in most rural areas. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Strengthening Post-Ebola Health Systems

    From Response to Resilience in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone

    Edited by Ramesh Govindaraj, Christopher H. Herbst ...
    The Ebola virus outbreak ravaged parts of West Africa during 2013–16, particularly in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The epidemic had very high human, social, and economic costs; food became scarce, schools were shut down, and ongoing development programs shifted to support the immediate response efforts. The rapid spread of the disease demonstrated the urgent need to invest in health systems ... Read more

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  • Strengthening Post-Ebola Health Systems

    From Response to Resilience in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone

    Edited by Ramesh Govindaraj, Christopher H. Herbst ...
    The Ebola virus outbreak ravaged parts of West Africa during 2013†“16, particularly in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The epidemic had very high human, social, and economic costs; food became scarce, schools were shut down, and ongoing development programs shifted to support the immediate response efforts. The rapid spread of the disease demonstrated the urgent need to invest in health systems ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Health Labor Market Analyses in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    An Evidence-Based Approach

    Edited by Richard M. Scheffler, Christopher H. Herbst, Christophe Lemiere, Jim Campbell ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Human Development
    This book, produced jointly by the World Bank, the University of California, Berkeley, and the WHO, aims to provide decision-makers at sub-national, national, regional and global levels with additional insights into how to address their workforce challenges rather than describe them. In order to optimize and align HRH investments and develop targeted policy responses, a thorough understanding of ... Read more

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    by World Bank ...
    The report assesses the World Bank Group?s support for growth and productivity in the agriculture sector. Enhancing agricultural growth and productivity is essential to meeting the worldwide demand for food and to reducing poverty particularly in the poorest developing countries. Between 1998 and 2008 the period covered by this evaluation the World Bank Group (WBG) provided 23.7 billion in ... Read more

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  • Poverty Reduction Support Credits: An Evaluation Of World Bank Support

    by Kumar Anjali ...
    This evaluation examines the relevance and effectiveness of Poverty Reduction Support Credits (PRSCs), introduced by the Bank in early 2001 to support comprehensive growth, improve social conditions, and reduce poverty in IDA countries. PRSCs were intended to allow greater country-ownership, provide more predictable annual support, exhibit more flexible conditionality, and strengthen budget ... Read more

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  • How Governments Can Engage the Private Sector to Improve Health in Africa: Healthy Partnerships

    by World Bank ...
    Since the private health sector is an important and often dominant provider of health services in Sub-Saharan Africa it is the job of governments as the stewards of the health system to engage with it. Increasing the contributions that the existing private health sector is making to public health is an important but often neglected element of meeting the daunting health-related challenges facing ... Read more

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  • The Many Faces Of Corruption: Tracking Vulnerabilities At The Sector Level

    by Campos J. Edgardo; Pradhan Sanjay ...
    Corruption... How can policymakers and practitioners better comprehend the many forms and shapes that this social pandemic takes? From the delivery of essential drugs, the reduction in teacher absenteeism, the containment of illegal logging, the construction of roads, the provision of water and electricity, the international trade in oil and gas, the conduct of public budgeting and procurement, ... Read more

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  • Dull Disasters?

    How planning ahead will make a difference

    by Daniel J. Clarke, Stefan Dercon ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In recent years, typhoons have struck the Philippines and Vanuatu; earthquakes have rocked Haiti, Pakistan, and Nepal; floods have swept through Pakistan and Mozambique; droughts have hit ... Read more

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  • Independent Evaluation Office, Annual Report 2003

    by International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office ...
    Series Book Independent Evaluation Office Reports - Independent Evaluation Office Reports
    This first Annual Report describes the activities of the IEO through the first full year of operation. The report provides a summary of the main findings and recommendations of the first three evaluation projects on the prolonged use of IMF resources, the role of the IMF in recent capital account crises, and the role of fiscal adjustment in IMF-supported programs. It also indicates the status of ... Read more

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