The synergies between rooftop solar PV (RPV) and energy efficiency (EE) investments in the built environment include lower specific transaction costs, optimized RPV systems, shorter project payback periods...
Type: BriefReport#: 122590Date: January 10, 2018Author:
Makumbe,Pedzisayi
In poorly resourced rural areas, most local health services are ill-prepared to manage severe complications or offer emergency surgical care. Saving lives in an emergency requires timely and appropriate...
The frontline of the health system comprises the primary health care (PHC) system, the networks of frontline health workers, and other public- or private-sector services or institutions that serve as first-touch...
In the fragmented care systems of rapidly growing cities, patients can get lost in the shuffle. A cornucopia of providers is spread across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, making it difficult...
In the most resource-constrained settings, where the first five years of life represent a critical window of vulnerability, the ability to adopt healthier behaviors in the home can determine whether a...
Bangladesh is known globally for its considerable success in reducing poverty and advancing development. With a vibrant economy that has grown at more than 6 percent per year in the last decade, Bangladesh...
In mature health systems, specialty care systems are well developed but integration between primary care and specialty services can be poor or nonexistent, leading to missed referrals, duplication of basic...
A move from the countryside to a metropolis can offer new opportunities, but it can also expose an individual to new lifestyles and behaviors that put health at risk. Increased rates of behavioral risk...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for January 10, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: (i) Indonesia’s retail sales rose 2.5 percent yoy in November 2017, from 2.2 percent in October;...
In mature health systems, emerging health innovations require an adaptive and robust regulatory regime, alongside accreditation standards that are useful to consumers, to scale effectively. New health...
Rural areas can face acute human resource shortages of doctors, nurses, and other health professionals. Health workers may perceive rural postings as low-status, offering few professional opportunities,...
By 2050, sixty-eight percent of the world's population is expected to live in urban areas. As countries grow and urbanize, their disease burden shifts toward noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Health workers...
Addressing the burden of chronic disease begins at home. Many of the leading causes of ill health in member countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are caused, at...
Wealthy countries are aging rapidly, driving higher usage of health services. Most members countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have expanded medical education...
Urbanizing countries can struggle to ensure uniform minimum standards of care quality particularly when the private sector grows quickly but unevenly, with limited government capacity for robust oversight...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for January 9, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: the government raised IDR 13.0 trillion from Sharia denominated bond (Sukuk) auction today, with...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for January 8, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Indonesia’s international reserves stood at United States dollars (USD) 130.20 billion at end-December...
A growing number of low- and middle-income countries are investing in social safety nets to improve the lives and livelihoods of their poor and vulnerable residents. According to the World Bank (2015)...
Type: BriefReport#: 122588Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Poulter,Richard Andrew ;
Maher,Barry Patrick
Climate change is emerging as a potent driver of internal migration. In Sub-Saharan Africa, internal climate migrants can number over 85 million, representing up to four percent of the region’s total population....
The Kenya Accountable Devolution program (KADP) works with government at both county and national levels. The program addresses key capacity gaps to make devolution respond to citizens' needs through strengthened...
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