Effective health care interventions are underutilized in the developing world, and income-
related disparities in use are large. The evidence concerning this access problem is …

New research on the quality of care in public and private primary care facilities has
significantly enriched our understanding of how health care is delivered in low-and middle …

Abstract Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are increasingly popular in the social
sciences, not only in medicine. We argue that the lay public, and sometimes researchers, put …

THE GREAT ESCAPE is a movie about men escaping from a prisoner-ofwar camp in World
War II. The Great Escape of this book is the story of mankind's escaping from deprivation and …

From one of the world's best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the
tragic hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world." …

In this paper, we report results from surveys in which enumerators made unannounced visits
to primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru and …

This paper studies the links between public spending, governance, and outcomes. We
examine the role of governance–measured by the level of corruption and the quality of …

Afghanistan remains in the bottom 10 percent globally in electricity consumption per capita
(~ 100 kWh per year) and only 25-30 percent of its population is connected to the grid, one …

The long-standing tradition of empirical studies investigating the nexus between economic
growth and poverty concentrates mainly on monetary poverty. In contrast, little is known …

Abstract 'Capacity building'is the objective of many development programmes and a
component of most others. However, satisfactory definitions continue to elude us, and it is …