Improvement in energy efficiency is one
of the main options to reduce energy demand and greenhouse
gas emissions. However, large-scale deployment of
energy-efficient...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 123234Date: March 1, 2017Author:
Hochman,Gal ;
Timilsina,Govinda R.
Bioenergy has been under intense
scrutiny over the last ten years with significant research
efforts in many countries taking place to define and measure
sustainable...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 125350Date: February 23, 2017
Despite a non-decreasing HIV epidemic,
international donors are soon expected to withdraw funding
from Kazakhstan. Here the authors analyze how allocative,
implementation,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 136143Date: February 16, 2017Author:
Stuart,Robyn M ;
Shattock,Andrew J ;
Gray,Richard ;
Benedikt,Clemens Johannes ;
Masaki,Emiko ;
Kerr,Cliff.C ;
Wilson,David P ;
Bokazhanova,Aliya ;
Đurić,Predrag ;
Petrenko,Irina ;
Ganina,Lolita ;
Kelly,Sherrie L. ;
Vinichenko,Tatiana ;
Zhang,Shufang ;
Hamelmann,Christoph ;
Manova,Manoela
Detention of people who use drugs into
compulsory drug detention centres (CDDCs) is common
throughout East and Southeast Asia. Evidence-based
pharmacological therapies...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 125339Date: February 1, 2017Author:
Wegman,Martin P. ;
Altice,Frederick L. ;
Kaur,Sangeeth ;
Rajandaran,Vanesa ;
Osornprasop,Sutayut ;
Wilson,David ;
Wilson,David P. ;
Kamarulzaman,Adeeba
Maize plays a leading role in the food
security of millions in southern Africa, yet it is highly
vulnerable to the moisture stress brought about by the
erratic rainfall...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 125241Date: February 1, 2017Author:
Kassie,Girma T. ;
Abdulai,Awudu ;
Greene,William H. ;
Shiferaw,Bekele Ambaye ;
Abate,Tsedeke ;
Tarekegne,Amsal ;
Sutcliffe,Chloe
Since 2009 the Ministry of Public Health
(MoPH) in Lebanon has been going through a major
reforminitiative to improve its contracting system with
private and public...
This special issue examines government
efforts that have been adopted since 2011 to address
imminent health system challenges in the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA)...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 112998Date: January 31, 2017Author:
Yazbeck,Abdo S. ;
Rabie,Tamer Samah ;
Pande,Aakanksha
Dual practice, health professionals
working simultaneously in the public and private sectors, is
perceived to negatively impact quality of health care. While
a range...
Health systems are not easy to
benchmark, in part because the health sector produces more
than one outcome. This paper offers two ways of benchmarking
the health systems...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 115262Date: January 31, 2017Author:
Wang,Huihui ;
Yazbeck,Abdo S.
An increasing number of low, and
middle-income countries are receiving significant
investments to implement health reform strategies featuring
Health Management Information...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 112997Date: January 31, 2017
Social justice, broadly defined as
providing equal access to liberties, rights, and
opportunitiesespecially for the least advantaged members of
society, is a priority...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 113001Date: January 31, 2017Author:
Pande,Aakanksha ;
El Shalakani,Amr ;
Hamed,Alaa
A review of rigorous evaluations of
interventions that seek to empower women economically shows
that the same class of interventions has significantly
different outcomes...
In 1999, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
enacted a law that compels private employers to
covernon-Saudi employees with health insurance. In the 16
years that followed, the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 113002Date: January 31, 2017Author:
Al-Mazrou,Yagoub ;
Al-Ghaith,Taghreed ;
Yazbeck,Abdo S. ;
Rabie,Tamer Samah
This article develops a framework for
understanding the role of sub-national states in water
politics in decentralized federal systems. First, that role
has increased...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 115264Date: January 19, 2017Author:
Moore,Scott Michael
This survey reviews the current state of
the economic literature, assessing the impact of
transportinvestments and policies on growth, inclusion, and
sustainability...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 115263Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Berg,Claudia N. ;
Deichmann,Uwe Klaus ;
Liu,Yishen ;
Selod,Harris
Performance-based financing (PBF)
programs are increasingly implemented in low and
middle-income countries to improve health service quality
and utilization. In April...
Following advances in infectious disease
control, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have overtaken
other conditions as causes of premature death and disability
in lower-income...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 125338Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Kostova,Deliana ;
Chaloupka,Frank Joseph ;
Frieden,Thomas R. ;
Henning,Kelly J. ;
Paul,Jeremias ;
Osewe,Patrick Lumumba ;
Asma,Samira
Land change in Kigali, Rwanda is
examined using intensity analysis, which measures the
temporal stationarity of changes among categories. Maps for
1981, 2002, and 2014...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 115265Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Akinyemi, Felicia O. ;
Pontius, Robert Gilmore ;
Braimoh, Ademola K.
The Delhi Metro (DM) is a mass rapid
transit system serving the National Capital Region of India.
It is also the world’s first rail project to earn carbon
credits under...
This paper develops a dynamic,
stochastic, general-equilibrium model to analyze and derive
simple budget rules in the face of volatile public revenue
from natural resources...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 129200Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Devarajan,Shantayanan ;
Dissou,Yazid ;
Go,Delfin Sia ;
Robinson,Sherman
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