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Cost-benefit Analysis of the Onchoceriasis Control Program (OCP)
Author: Ae-hy?ng Kim
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780821332351
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Annotation World Bank Technical Paper No. 282. This volume presents a cost-benefit analysis of the Onchocerciasis (Riverblindness) Control Program (OCP) by examining its costs and the measurable economic benefits gained from the successful control of the disease. Widely recognized as one of the most successful disease control programs in the history of development assistance, the OCP projects the elimination of riverblindness throughout an eleven-country subregion of West Africa within the next eight years. This program, which began in the early 1970s, was the World Bank's first major venture into the health field. The Bank asked a large donor community of more than 20 governments and international organizations to make a long-term commitment of more than US$500 million to implement the OCP. This paper documents the benefits in economic terms from the large investment and shows that large-scale, well-conceived health interventions are clearly the business of development. The program improves the health and living environment of the rural population and frees previously oncho-ridden tracts of land for settlement and cultivation.
Measuring the Burden of Disease and the Cost-effectiveness of Health Interventions
Author: Prabhat Jha
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780821337271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →World Bank Technical Paper No. 333.Draws on the methodology of QUOTEWorld Development Report 1993: Investing in HealthQUOTE to analyze the burden of disease and the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions. The analysis presents a framework for the activities of the government of Guinea in prioritizing health care services.
Institutional Change and Effective Financing of Agricultural Research in Latin America
Author: Ruben G. Echeverría
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780821337097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The economic and institutional environment for NARS in the 1990s; Public and private sector funding and execution of research: key concepts; Alternative financing mechanisms; Perspectives for the year 2000 and beyond.
A Survey of Health Reform in Central Asia
Author: Jeni Klugman
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780821338049
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →World Bank Technical Paper No. 352. Six years into the transition from planned to market economies in Central and Eastern Europe, high unemployment rates, including a growing proportion of the long-term unemployed, represent a serious challenge to social welfare systems and policymakers. This paper analyzes labor market development in nine transition countries of the region by focusing on the dynamics of labor force behavior, employment, and unemployment. The countries include Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia.
Freshwater Biodiversity in Asia
Author: Maurice Kottelat
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9780821338087
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →World Bank Discussion Paper No. 337. Draws on household survey data from 87 rural villages in Bangladesh to examine the contribution that government family planning programs, as well as other health care interventions, have made toward the recent reduction in fertility by increasing contraceptive use and reducing infant mortality. The paper suggests that the programs have been effective and finds that targeted credit program placement, such as the Grameen Bank and the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), contributed to the effort as well.
Trends in Education Access and Financing During the Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Dena Ringold
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780821339121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →IFC Results on the Ground No. 1. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), whose primary mission is to encourage economic development in its member countries by supporting the private sector, measures its development effectiveness through an annual project review. This report, the first in a series that examines the IFC's development impact, presents five case studies of projects carried out during 1995-96. The projects involved were chosen for their geographic diversity and because they represent a number of sectors in which the IFC has traditionally done business--banks in Africa and Latin America; an agribusiness project in Madagascar; a textile operation in Indonesia; and an infrastructure project in Argentina. Each of these studies illustrates in detail the various aspects of project contributions of projects to development and some of the residual problems that will be the subject of future work.
The Condition of Young Children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Nat J. Colletta
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780821336779
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reviews the World Bank's experience in industrial restructuring in 46 countries during the past 14 years. The study finds that for most completed public enterprise restructuring operations, sustainability of benefits was a large problem, mainly because of fragile sector reforms and inadequate governance and management. Those completed for the private sector experienced poor outcomes from inadequate attention to country economic conditions and policy distortions. To overcome such problems, the study recommends that future restructuring operations be designed and implemented to have an impact at the firm level.
Creating Capital Markets in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Gerhard Pohl
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9780821333709
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Addresses the challenge Hungary faces in overcoming threatening deficits in its current and fiscal accounts without hampering economic growth. The Hungarian economy is emerging from a severe four-year recession with positive developments on numerous economic fronts, but with major weaknesses remaining because of large current and fiscal account deficits. This book addresses the challenge Hungary faces in overcoming these deficits without hampering economic growth. The report examines the country's macroeconomic performance in the first half of the 1990s and the stabilization package launched in March 1995. It explores the structure of fiscal revenues, pension reform, and enterprise and banking reforms. The study also looks at the impact of structural reforms on future economic growth and at Hungary's bid to integrate with the European Union.
Social Development and Absolute Poverty in Asia and Latin America
Author: Willy De Geyndt
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9780821336953
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Using econometric techniques analyzes causes of widespread poverty in Latin America and the 10 largest East and South Asian countries. Concludes that slow economic growth is not the only explanatory variable, and cites importance of schools and health care"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
