Amman, June 5, 2017— Jordan can improve the quality of health and education services by using incentives and increasing monitoring to strengthen accountability, according to a new World Bank report entitled...
Date: June 5, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
SHARISTAN DISTRICT, Daykundi Province – A father sits on a wooden chair and caresses his child, who is lying on a bed with his hand in a bandage. In a corner, a doctor checks the case papers of an elderly...
Date: May 22, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
KABUL PROVINCE – A full-color image of the human body is beamed on the screen. Heavy drapes block sunlight and all that shines in the classroom are the tips of ballpoint pens as the young women furiously...
Date: April 10, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Enjil District, Herat Province – The baby cries aloud as the nurse administers two vaccines to protect him from the deadly polio virus and tetanus. The nurse tells the baby’s mother, Zahra, not to touch...
Date: November 1, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
HERAT CITY, Herat Province – A little girl rests on her hospital bed with several tubes attached to her body, one of which is connected to a dialysis machine next to the bed. On the other side of the room,...
Date: October 26, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Lin, 22, holds her seven-week-old daughter firmly as she wraps a piece of cloth tightly around the baby’s body. She is waiting to meet a health worker about family planning at the Maternal Neonatal and...
Date: August 15, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
China's innovations in health and cooperative healthcare decades ago showed the world that it was possible to improve healthcare and greatly increase life expectancy for hundreds of millions of people....
Date: July 23, 2016
Type: Opinion
Language: English
Hanoi, September 17, 2014 – Vietnam has made great strides in expanding social health insurance, now covering more than half of its population, but reforms, such as providing premium subsidies, greater...
Date: September 17, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2014 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a US$50 million IDA* grant on June 24, 2014 to help the Government of Mozambique (GoM) improve the transparency and efficiency...
Date: June 26, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, March 13, 2014 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$44 million in additional financing to help South Sudan boost health services, fight hunger and assist people...
Date: March 13, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
SOUTH SUDAN, March 6, 2014—Recent fighting in South Sudan is afflicting millions of people, many of them still recovering from the country’s five-decade civil war. The conflict is impacting the northern...
Date: March 6, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Qinghai Province, China – Despite rising incomes, poor health has remained a major hurdle for China’s hundreds of millions of rural residents in their pursuit of better quality of life. But changes are...
Date: January 29, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Nairobi, January 22, 2014 – An estimated 39.5 million Kenyans have benefited from better health and nutrition services being provided by the Government with the support of the World Bank and other development...
Date: January 22, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Translated from Japanese: Thank you, Mr. Shibusawa, for that kind introduction, and for the excellent work of JCIE.) Translated from Japanese: I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to Minister Aso,...
Date: December 6, 2013
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
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