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  • - Jobs and Policies in Developing Countries During the Great Recession
    af World Bank
    383,95 kr.

    Reviews the experience of workers in developing countries during the global financial crisis of 2009, asseses the recovery, and provides new evidence on the policy response that countries undertook in response to the crisis.

  • - Evidencia de paises selecionados
     
    518,95 kr.

    Depois de quase um quarto de seculo de implementacao de reformas para a cobertura universal de saude, e chegada a hora de avaliar como a regiao se saiu neste sentido.

  • - Preparing the Workforce for a Modern Market Economy
    af Christian Bodewig & Reena Badiani-Magnusson
    383,95 kr.

    The demand for workforce skills is changing in Vietnam's dynamic economy. In addition to job-specific skills, Vietnamese employers value cognitive skills, like problem solving, and behavioural skills, like team work. This book presents an agenda of change for Vietnam's education system to prepare workers to succeed in Vietnam's modernizing economy.

  • - An Assessment of the National Health Response
    af Fernando Lavadenz, Carla Pantanali & Eliana Zeballos
    397,95 kr.

    Argentina is a success story in combating HIV/AIDS. This study analyses the burden of disease, the demand and supply-sides of service delivery, the financial dimension, and provides best practices about key programmatic innovations that have had a pivotal role in reducing incidence and burden in Argentina.

  • - Toward Sustainable Provision of Teaching and Learning Materials in Sub-Saharan Africa
    af Tony Read
    443,95 kr.

    Textbooks need to be readily available in low-income countries, to help trump the adverse effects of large class-sizes, poorly motivated and inadequately trained teachers, and short effective school years. Sub-Saharan African governments and publishers can do better in terms of quality, availability, and cost.

  • - Evidence from Selected Countries
     
    430,95 kr.

    After nearly a quarter century of implementing universal coverage reforms, it is apt to take stock of how well the region has fared. This volume reviews progress in reducing inequalities in health outcomes, service utilization, and financial protection, and assesses the common trends emerging from these reforms.

  • - Le Nouveau Role des Filets Sociaux en Afrique
    af Victoria Monchuk
    319,95 kr.

    Cet ouvrage examine la situation, les caracteristiques, la performance et le financement des filets sociaux en Afrique. Il identifie comment les gouvernements peuvent renforcer les filets sociaux afin que mieux proteger les pauvres et amelioration leur situation.

  • - Social Determinants and Health Sector Governance
    af Ramesh Govindaraj, Sadia Chowdhury, Dhushyanth Raju, mfl.
    428,95 kr.

    Examines the health and nutrition challenges in urban Bangladesh, looking at socioeconomic determinants in general and at health sector governance in particular. Using a mixed methods approach, the study identifies critical areas such as financing, regulation, service delivery, and public environmental health that require policy attention.

  • - A Human Opportunity Report for Latin America and the Caribbean
    af Jose R. Molinas Vega
    299,95 kr.

    The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region is making progress in opening the doors of development to all. But it still has a long way to go. At the current pace, it would take, on average, a generation for the region to achieve universal access to the basic services that make for human opportunity. This book assesses the status and evolution of human opportunity in LAC.

  • - Trends in Demand, Gaps, and Supply
    af Prateek Tandon, Emanuela Di Gropello & Aurelien Kruse
    443,95 kr.

    In Indonesia, the past two decades have been a time of great progress but also massive transformations and abrupt setbacks. In this context, this book reviews the main characteristics of - and trends in - demand for skills in Indonesia.

  • - A Synthesis of 11 Country Case Studies
    af Michael Reich, Naoki Ikegami, Akiko Maeda, mfl.
    318,95 kr.

  • af John Giles, Fang Cai, Dewen Wang & mfl.
    318,95 kr.

    Examines projected demographic changes that will affect the economic well-being of China's rural elderly over the next twenty years, taking into account both China's sharp demographic transition and the continued migration of young adults into cities. The book also documents the sources of financial support, poverty incidence and vulnerability of the rural elderly since the early 1990s.

  • - Une Synthese de 11 Etudes de cas Pays
    af Akiko Maeda
    299,95 kr.

    La couverture sanitaire universelle pour un developpement durable inclusif synthetise les experiences de 11 pays - Bangladesh, Bresil, Ethiopie, France, Ghana, Indonesie, Japon, Perou, Thailande, Turquie et Vietnam - dans la mise en oeuvre de politiques et de strategies d'atteinte et de maintien de la CSU.

  • - Evidencia de paises seleccionados
     
    518,95 kr.

    Despues de casi un cuarto de siglo de implementar reformas de cobertura universal, ha llegado el momenta para hacer un balance de las logros en la region. Este volumen analiza el progreso en la reducci6n de las desigualdades en los resultados de salud, la utilizaci6n de los servicios y la protecci6n financiera.

  • - Atteindre fes cibles mondiales en matiere de retard de croissance, d'anemie, d'allaitement maternel et d'emaciation
    af Meera Shekar
    518,95 kr.

    II faudra, pour atteindre les cibles de nutrition fixees par l' Asssemblee mondiale de la sante en matiere de retard de croissance, danemie chez la femme, d'allaitement matemel exclusif et d'emaciation, proceder a des financ.ements mondiaux de 70 milliards de dollars sur lOans dans des interventions specifiques a la nutrition a fort impact.

  • - Tackling Noncommunicable Diseases in South Asia
    af Michael Maurice Engelgau
    299,95 kr.

  • - An Analysis of Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay
    af Carmen Carpio
    354,95 kr.

    Provides a status update on the human resources for health sub-system in six Latin American and Caribbean countries: Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay. The report structures its discussion around how the health workforce is financed, organised, managed, regulated, and performing.

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