Documents & Reports
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Old Scars, New Wounds? : Public Financing for Health in Times of COVID-19 in the Asia-pacific Region (English)
Despite a rebound in economic growth following the pandemic, new geopolitical developments and macroeconomic shocks-inflation and monetary responses to inflation, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 182061 Document Date: May 1, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Tandon,Ajay,Yap,Wei Aun,Sharma,Jayendra,Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo,Irava,Wayne Jeremy,Eng,Rochelle Se Yun,Ruest Archambault,Maude,Sohail,Jahanzaib,Ghimire,Mamata,Hossain,Atia,Dong,Di,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Neelsen,Sven,Nagpal,Somil,Higashi,Hideki,Cros,Marion Jane
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From Double Shock to Double Recovery - Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19 : Technical Update 2 - Old Scars, New Wounds (English)
This publication provides a second technical update that reflects deteriorating global economic conditions following the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine combined with increasing inflation, and...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 176200 Document Date: August 31, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kurowski,Christoph,Evans,David B,Tandon,Ajay,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Schmidt,Martin,Irwin, Alec,Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo,Pambudi,Eko Setyo,Postolovska,Iryna
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Making the Case for Health : A Messaging Guide for Domestic Resource Mobilization (English)
The most equitable, efficient and effective way to finance Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and other health system objectives is by using public, compulsory, and prepaid domestic funding. As a country’s...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 190637 Document Date: December 31, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Tandon,Ajay,Bloom,Danielle Elena,Oliveira Hashiguchi,Lauren Michiko,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo,Nigam,Aditi,Nagpal,Somil
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Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2021 (English)
Document Type: Report Report No.: 166880 Document Date: December 13, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Flores,Gabriela,Lavado,Rouselle F.,Sparkes,Susan,Aftab,Ammar,Tan Torres-Edejer, Tessa L.,Kutzin,Joe,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Tandon,Ajay,Smitz,Marc-Francois,Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo,Neelsen,Sven
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Domestic Resource Mobilization for Increased Health Sector Fiscal Space and Universal Health Coverage : A Health Financing System Assessment 'Drill-Down' Guidance Note (English)
This note provides guidance on how to carry out a 'drill-down' examination of domestic resource mobilization (DRM) for increased health sector fiscal space to ensure progress towards universal health coverage...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 166094 Document Date: November 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Tandon,Ajay,Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo
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Assessing Public Financing for Nutrition in Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka (English)
Overall nutrition-specific expenditure in Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka remains low, although substantial variation exists among these countries. Given the high rates of malnutrition in these countries...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 166209 Document Date: October 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Andersen,Christopher Thomas,Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo,Chaudhery,Deepika Nayar,Higashi,Hideki,Tandon,Ajay
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From Double Shock to Double Recovery - Implications and Options for Health Financing in The Time of COVID-19 (Vol. 2 of 2) : Technical Update – Widening Rifts (English)
Volume 2 updates the analyses presented in the original discussion paper, Volume 1, "From Double Shock to Double Recovery - Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19," published...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 157543 Document Date: September 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kurowski,Christoph,Evans,David B,Tandon,Ajay,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Schmidt,Martin,Irwin,Alexander,Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo,Pambudi,Eko Setyo,Postolovska,Iryna
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From Double Shock to Double Recovery - Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19 : Technical Update - Widening Rifts (English)
This publication updates the analyses presented in the original discussion paper “From Double Shock to Double Recovery-Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19,” published...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 176201 Document Date: August 31, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kurowski,Christoph,Evans,David B,Tandon,Ajay,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Schmidt,Martin,Irwin, Alec,Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo,Pambudi,Eko Setyo,Postolovska,Iryna
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Unleashing the South Asian Century Through Human Capital for All (English)
The South Asia Human Capital Plan acknowledges the great strides the region has made in investing in human capital but highlights the deficits that remain. Given current quality, coverage, and effectiveness...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 157496 Document Date: March 17, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sherburne-Benz,Lynne D.,Haque,Trina S.,Tandon,Ajay,Coudouel,Aline,Fasih,Tazeen,Andersen,Christopher Thomas,Majoka,Zaineb,Alam,Muneeza Mehmood,Vargas,Martha P.,Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo,Hasan,Rifat Afifa,Johnson,Kelly Suzanne,Agarwal,Vivek,Narain,Urvashi,Govindaraj,Ramesh,Mittal,Pallavi Anand,Saleem,Furqan Ahmad,Joseph,George,Debebe,Zelalem Yilma,Hasan,Amer,Darvas,Peter,Crystal,Sybille
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From Double Shock to Double Recovery - Implications and Options for Health Financing in The Time of COVID-19 (Vol. 1 of 2) (English)
Volume 2 updates the analyses presented in the original discussion paper, Volume 1, "From Double Shock to Double Recovery - Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19," published...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 157543 Document Date: March 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kurowski,Christoph,Evans,David B,Tandon,Ajay,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Schmidt,Martin,Irwin,Alec,Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo,Pambudi,Eko Setyo,Postolovska,Iryna
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Economic Impact of COVID-19 Implications for Health Financing in Asia and Pacific (English)
Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19’s) impact has gone far beyond its direct effect on morbidity and mortality. In addition to adversely impacting non-COVID health care utilization, the pandemic has resulted in...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 153444 Document Date: September 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Tandon,Ajay,Roubal,Tomas,Cowley,Peter,Palu,Toomas,Cruz,Valeria de Oliveira,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo,Teo,Hui Sin,Schmidt,Martin,Pambudi,Eko Setyo,Postolovska,Iryna,Evans,David,Kurowski,Christoph,Mcdonald,Paul Lachlan
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The Future of Health Financing in Vietnam : Ensuring Sufficiency, Efficiency, and Sustainability (Vol. 1 of 2) (English)
Vietnam is changing rapidly economically, with parallel shifts in epidemiology and demographics. There have also been significant policy shifts in recent years, including in the health sector. The combined...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 139508 Document Date: June 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Teo,Hui Sin,Bales,Sarah,Bredenkamp,Caryn,Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo
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Intertemporal Dynamics of Public Financing for Universal Health Coverage : Accounting for Fiscal Space Across Countries (English)
As countries undergo their health financing transitions, moving away from external and out-of-pocket (OOP) financing toward domestically sourced public financing, the issue of fiscal space – that is, of...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 133115 Document Date: December 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Tandon,Ajay,Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo,Kurowski,Christoph,Postolovska,Iryna
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Myanmar – Health Financing System Assessment (English)
Myanmar’s National Health Plan (NHP) for 2017-2021 has laid out the vision of achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. The NHP aims to improve the delivery of health services and financial protection...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 132560 Document Date: October 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Teo,Hui Sin,Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo