Access to good-quality health services is crucial for the improvement of many health
outcomes, such as those targeted by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted …

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 …

Background Health policy makers have long been concerned with protecting people from
the possibility that ill health will lead to catastrophic financial payments and subsequent …

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 …

Background Monitoring the incidence and intensity of catastrophic health expenditure, as
well as the impoverishing effects of out of pocket costs to access healthcare, is a key part of …

For decades, governments and development partners promoted neoliberal policies in the
health sector in many LMICs, largely motivated by the belief that governments in these …

The article assesses the impact of Argentina's main social policy response to the severe
economic crisis of 2002. The program was intended to provide direct income support for …

The appropriate role of foreign aid in promoting economic development has long been
debated. With the recent change of focus from economic to human development, it is timely …

Unannounced visits were made to health clinics in Bangladesh to determine what proportion
of medical professionals were at their assigned post. Averaged over all job categories and …

In two cross-sections of developing countries, under-5 mortality is found to be associated
strongly with maternal and infant health program effort and with the share of births attended …