This paper explores the implications of the increasing role of informal as well as formal
markets in the health systems of many low and middle-income countries. It focuses on …

Background Enhancing quality of health care delivered in public health facilities in
developing countries is a key prerequisite to increase utilization and sustainability of health …

This paper describes the results of a policy experiment conducted in coordination with the
Nigerian government. In this experiment, some communities were randomly selected to …

We introduce a new instrument to evaluate the impact of behavior on outcomes when the
behavior may be a function of unobserved variables that also affect outcomes. The …

OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the impact of Seguro Popular (SP), a program introduced in
2001 in Mexico primarily to finance health care for the poor. We focused on the effect of …

In the wake of structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and health reforms in the 1990s,
the majority of sub-Saharan African governments spend less than ten dollars per capita on …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the natural process by which bacteria become resistant to
the medicines used to kill them, is becoming one of the greatest threats to health globally …

Objective While antenatal care does not directly contribute to reducing maternal mortality, it
may play an indirect role by encouraging women to deliver with a skilled birth attendant or in …

The world's poorest pay for professional services and thus are in a “market,” whether the
services are provided in the public or private sectors. The associated problems of unequal …

We examine an intervention randomized at the village level in which female farmers invited
to a single training session were randomly paired with farmers whom they did not know and …