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    Assessing the health of the poor: towards a pro-poor measurement strategy

    Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2001
    How is poverty and poor people’s health measured? What problems are encountered and what tools are available to assist in the collection of data in the developing world?
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    Allocating public resources for health: developing pro-poor approaches

    Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2002
    Public funds are often a key source of financing for services used by the poor therefore the way in which a country finances its health care can have a major impact on the access of the poor. How then can financing policies be made more pro poor?
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    Health: a global public good?

    International Poverty Health Network, 2002
    This paper is based on a report by the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health The main argument being put forward being that investment in the health of the poor would contribute to a wide range of global public goods such as equity, security, peace and a healthy environment.
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    Children on the brink 2002: a joint report on orphan estimates and program strategies

    Synergy Project, USAID, 2002
    The paper details a number of impacts of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on children.
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    The impact of the AIDS epidemic on the health of the elderly in Tanzania

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2001
    This paper is a product of the research project on “The economic impact of fatal adult illness due to AIDS and other causes in Sub-Saharan Africa”.The paper uses longitudinal household data from the Kagera Region of Tanzania collected in 1991-94 to measure the impact of mortality, mainly as a result of HIV/AIDS, of prime-aged adult household members on the level and changes in physical well-bei
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    The 10/90 Report on Health Research 2001-2002

    Global Forum for Health Research, 2002
    Of the US$73 billion spent globally every year on health research only about 10% is actually allocated for research into 90% of the world’s health problems. This is what is known as the 10/90 gap.
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    Finance development: invest in children

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2002
    This UNICEF report looks at the financial investments needed to free children from poverty and meet targets set under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The report focuses on the investments needed by governments and international organisations in health, education, and water and sanitation to secure the well-being of children.
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    Review of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach: main findings

    Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2002
    Summary of findings from official review of PRSP processes.
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    Chronic poverty and older people in the developing world

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2002
    The paper explores the relationship between old age and chronic poverty in the developing world, and the implications of this for achieving global targets for poverty reduction.For the majority of the world's older people, the meaning of old age is not a chronological definition but the changing roles accompanying physical change and reduced capacity to contribute or maintain a livelihood.
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    Poverty and health

    Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001
    This paper provides an overview of the research on two aspects of equity, poverty and health - inequalities in health that are to the disadvantage of the poor, and the impoverishment and income redistribution associated with out-of-pocket payments for health care.

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