Vaccine security and self-sufficiency have received increased global attention in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as low- and middle-income countries were heavily dependent on high-income countries...
This issue brief provides an introductory assessment of efficiency (and inefficiency) in Bhutan’s health financing system understood simply as health outputs and outcomes per given input. Through a comparison...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) impose an increasingly heavy health and economic burden on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The World Bank’s investments in NCD management have increased steadily...
Due to global warming, the climate in most regions, especially Africa, is predicted to become more variable, and extreme weather events are expected to be more frequent and severe. These include increasing...
Adolescence is a dynamic period of biological development and social change, and also a period when adolescent girls are at risk of school dropout, early marriage, pregnancy, and gender-based violence...
This report illustrates the efforts of the Project’s team in disseminating knowledge in support to Mali health policymaking. This work is the product of a principal investigator hired as independent consultant...
“Health Financing in a Time of Global Shocks” is a first attempt to comprehensively gauge government health spending trends in developing countries over the past three years of successive health and economic...
This report focuses on sources of public revenue for health financing in Africa.
The Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents (GFF) was launched in 2015, in response to the unfinished Millennium Development Goals (MDG) agenda and inadequate progress towards ending...
Health Financing (HF) reforms - increasing domestic resources for health and improving efficiency of their use - have been central to the GFF’s mission since its inception. They are a core part of its...
This health financing system assessment (HFSA) study comes at an opportune time to favor informed policy-making around health financing for universal health coverage (UHC) in Niger. The comprehensive assessment...
Ratings for the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF) Project for Nigeria were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was satisfactory and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) quality was substantial...
The development objective of the Health System Improvement Project for Albania is to contribute to the modernization of selected public hospital services. The additional financing (AF) will address the...
This paper aims to analyze health system resilience (HSR) capacities in the Caribbean and suggests priority actions for strengthening. As there has been limited guidance to date on assessing HSR in the...
This report focuses on IMF-World Bank collaboration for health spending and financing during COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the last two decades, Bangladesh has made significant progress in improving its routine health information systems (HIS). The goal of the Bangladesh HIS is to provide accurate and timely health data...
This Algeria Economic Monitor provides an update on key recent economic developments and policies. It places them in a longer-term and global context and assesses the implications these developments and...
This Algeria Economic Monitor provides an update on key recent economic developments and policies. It places them in a longer-term and global context and assesses the implications these developments and...
This Algeria Economic Monitor provides an update on key recent economic developments and policies. It places them in a longer-term and global context and assesses the implications these developments and...