Recommended reading
- Social protection for the poor: lessons learnt from recent international experience
- ( S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2002)
- This paper synthesises current thinking and evidence on a number of issues around the design and impact of social protection programmes, including: the case for and against targeting resource ...
- Waivers and exemptions for health services in developing countries
- ( R. Bitrán; U. Giedion / World Bank , 2003)
- The problem with user fees is that the poorest people might not be able to pay them, and so not get the health care they need. This discussion paper from the World Bank Institute’s Social Safety Net P...
- Persistent problems of access to appropriate, affordable TB services in rural China: experiences of different socio-economic groups
- ( T. Zhang; S. Tang; G. Jun; M. Whitehead / BMC Public Health , 2007)
- This paper, published in BMC public health, investigates the receipt of appropriate care and affordability of services for different socio-economic groups with TB symptoms in rural China. Whilst large...
- Unequal measures: who benefits most from government spending on healthcare?
- ( M. Makinen;L. Gilson / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002)
- Policy-makers in developing regions and countries in transition need reliable information to make decisions about how to allocate healthcare resources. Yet, accurate quantitative data on healthcare in...
- Equity in financing and delivery of health services in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka: results of the tri-country study
- ( R.P. Rannan-Eliya; A. Somanathan; V. Sumathiratne; G.D. Dayaratne / Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka , 2001)
- Achieving equity in access to health care is a central element of health systems reforms in many developing countries. But, how equitable are health systems in reality? This paper assesses the equit...
- Public social spending in Africa: do the poor benefit?
- ( F. Castro-Leal; J. Dayton; L. Demery; K. Mehra / World Bank Research Observer , 1999)
- This paper, published by the World Bank Research Observer (WBRO), examines the effectiveness of public social spending on education and health care in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, ...
- More for the poor is less for the poor: the politics of targeting
- ( L.H. Pritchett; J.B. Gelbach / World Bank , 1997)
- This World Bank study assesses the welfare properties of targeted income support transfers when a basic political feasibility condition is imposed on the levels of targeting and taxation. Both economi...
- Healthcare for the ultra-poor: the case of BRAC’s CFPR/TUP programme
- ( S.M. Ahmed / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre , 2005)
- This paper from the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre explores the experiences of the Bangladeshi non-governmental organisation "BRAC" in implementing a customised development programme for the poor...
- Changes in access to health care in China, 1989-1997
- ( J. S. Akin;W. H. Dow;P. M. Lance / Health Policy and Planning , 2005)
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This paper published in Health Policy and Planning, examines changes in several indicators of access to health care across communities in during the period of 1989 to 19...
