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  Are the poor too poor to demand health insurance?

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2004

  Community based micro-insurance schemes are increasingly being seen as a solution for meeting the health care challenges of the poor. Can they protect the poor from health related shocks? This paper provides a brief overview of community based micro-insurance schemes.
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  Urban poverty and health in developing countries: household and neighborhood effects

  Population Council, USA, 2004

  This paper investigates whether the health of women and young children within developing country cities, is influenced by household and neighborhood standards of living.Using data from the urban samples of 85 Demographic and Health Surveys, and modeling living standards, the authors find that:the neighborhoods of poor households are more heterogeneous than is often asserted, and that as
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  Improving the health of the world’s poorest people

  Population Reference Bureau, 2004

  This bulletin, produced by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), highlights the poor-rich health divide that leaves more than 1 billion people worldwide excluded from both essential basic care and the benefits of advances in health and medical technology because of their extreme poverty.
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  Policy options to improve the economic access of low-income households to state provided health care

  Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2003

  Most developing countries aim for universal access to health but in reality, health systems are often ineffective at reaching the poor, as the poor face greater cost-related barriers to accessing health care. Developing countries have initiated several policies to address this, but how effective are they?
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government sponsored programme in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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  Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: the role of infrastructure

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003

  This paper provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of child health in order to make the case for the importance of combining interventions, including access to basic infrastructure services, in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys, the paper goes beyond traditional cross-country regressions by exploiting the variability
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  Medical expenditure and rural impoverishment in China

  Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 2003

  Due to escalating medical costs and lack of insurance coverage, medical spending causes financial hardship for many rural families in China, despite continued economic growth and increasing income in the country as a whole. This paper, published in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, reviews the escalation of medical costs and lack of insurance coverage.
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  Geographic aspects of poverty and health in Tanzania: does living in a poor area matter?

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This study investigates the concentration of poverty at the community level in Tanzania and its association with the availability and quality of primary health care services, the utilization of primary health care services, and health outcomes among both poor and nonpoor households.On average, both poor and non-poor households living in low poverty concentration areas were found to have better
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  Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) highlights the implications of the AIDS pandemic for food aid strategy and programming.
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  Food aid and child nutrition in rural Ethiopia

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper uses a unique panel data set from Ethiopia to examine the determinants of participation in and receipts of food aid through free distribution (FD) and food-for-work (FFW).

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