Economic Growth and Development
expenditure as a fraction of GDP, or pupil/teacher ratios even when controlling for parental education (Hanushek and Kimko, 2000 ...
efforts in Tanzania in the 1970s and more recent successes. Increased provision of primary education in the 1970s and 1980s was ...
(Chaudhury et al., 2006). Higher-ranking staff such as headmasters and doctors were more often absent than lower-ranking ones. T ...
service providers. Second, beneficiaries must be able to influence providers, for example by punishing absence. The latter may b ...
rather than through planned reform. Studies have found even the poorest parents have exercised the exit option, moving their chi ...
Conclusions It is evident that no single policy solution can improve teaching quality. Poor education is more likely to occur in ...
Some studies use data from health facility records to create a disease- oriented definition of the health status of a population ...
retirement, so increasing the pool of resources available for investment. The latter effect is likely to be temporary as the sav ...
through which malaria impacts on economic growth is not clearly understood or measured but probably revolves around the impact o ...
to provide sufficient vaccinations. There is good empirical evidence of this in developing countries. The economic benefits in u ...
households surveyed in Udaipur, Rajasthan identified health expenditure as their major source of financial stress (Banerjee and ...
nutrition caused by a more equal allocation. Another good example of a successful public health campaign was the National Malari ...
lymphatic filariasis, neonatal tetanus, iodine deficiency disorders and blinding trachoma). The development of new treatments fo ...
clinical practice in Delhi, India. Only 52 per cent of private-sector ‘doctors’ sampled held the required Bachelor of Medicine a ...
interacting with actual patients. In contrast, private non-MBBS doctors knew the right question to ask only 20 per cent of the t ...
The poor receive low-quality care from the private sector because doctors do not know much and low-quality care from the public ...
In India at least there is no obvious shortage of primary health care facilities. A survey of health facilities in rural Rajasth ...
providing the health interventions, including the direct costs of medicines and health services, capital investments, complement ...
service delivery in so many developing countries today, nor clarify the link between expenditure and health outcomes. Key points ...
PART II Patterns of Long-term Economic Growth and the Deeper Determinants of Economic Growth After discussing the proximate dete ...
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