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  • Improving Effective Coverage in Health : Do Financial Incentives Work - Overview (English)

    Financial incentives or performance pay links payments to health facilities and workers to the quantity and quality of services they deliver. These performance incentives came on the scene in health financing...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 171612 Document Date: July 4, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Kandpal,Eeshani,Wagstaff, Adam,Friedman,Jed,Neelsen,Sven,Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen,Sautmann,Anja,Shapira,Gil,Van De Poel,Ellen

  • Cómo Mejorar la Cobertura Efectiva de la Salud : ¿Funcionan los Incentivos Financieros? - Panorama General (Spanish)

    Financial incentives or performance pay links payments to health facilities and workers to the quantity and quality of services they deliver. These performance incentives came on the scene in health financing...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 171612 Document Date: July 4, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Kandpal,Eeshani,Wagstaff, Adam,Friedman,Jed,Neelsen,Sven,Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen,Sautmann,Anja,Shapira,Gil,Van De Poel,Ellen

  • Improving Effective Coverage in Health : Do Financial Incentives Work? (English)

    Financial incentives or performance pay links payments to health facilities and workers to the quantity and quality of services they deliver. These performance incentives came on the scene in health financing...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 171612 Document Date: May 18, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Kandpal,Eeshani,Wagstaff, Adam,Friedman,Jed,Neelsen,Sven,Piattifuenfkirchen,Moritz Otto Maria Alfons,Sautmann,Anja,Shapira,Gil,Van De Poel,Ellen

  • Toward Successful Development Policies : Insights from Research in Development Economics (English)

    What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9133 Document Date: January 30, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Artuc,Erhan,Cull,Robert J.,Dasgupta,Susmita,Fattal Jaef,Roberto N.,Filmer,Deon P.,Gine,Xavier,Jacoby,Hanan G.,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Kee,Hiau Looi,Klapper,Leora,Kraay,Aart C.,Loayza,Norman V.,Mckenzie,David J.,Ozler,Berk,Rao,Vijayendra,Rijkers,Bob,Schmukler,Sergio L.,Toman,Michael A.,Wagstaff, Adam,Woolcock,Michael

  • Out-of-Pocket Expenditures on Health : A Global Stocktake (English)

    The authors provide an overview of research on out-of-pocket health expenditures, reviewing the various summary measures and the results of multi-country studies using these measures. They present estimates...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 137721 Document Date: January 3, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wagstaff, Adam,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Smitz,Marc-Francois

  • The 2018 Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators Database : Overview and Insights (English)

    The 2018 database on Health Equity and Financial Protection indicators provides data on equity in the delivery of health service interventions and health outcomes, and on financial protection in health...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8577 Document Date: October 16, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wagstaff, Adam,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Neelsen,Sven,Smitz,Marc-Francois

  • Progress on impoverishing health spending in 122 countries : a retrospective observational study (English)

    The goal of universal health coverage (UHC) requires that families who get needed health care do not suffer financial hardship as a result. This can be measured by instances of impoverishment, when a household’s...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 123181 Document Date: December 13, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wagstaff, Adam,Flores,Gabriela,Smitz,Marc-Francois,Hsu,Justine,Chepynoga,Kateryna,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu

  • Progress on catastrophic health spending in 133 countries : a retrospective observational study (English)

    The goal of universal health coverage (UHC) requires inter alia that families who get needed health care do not suffer undue financial hardship as a result. This can be measured by the percentage of people...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 123229 Document Date: December 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wagstaff, Adam,Flores,Gabriela,Hsu, Justine,Smitz, Marc-François,Chepynoga, Kateryna,Buisman,Leander Robert,Wilgenburg, Kim van,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu

  • The Economic Costs of Stunting and How to Reduce Them (English)

    Investments in very young children, limiting exposure to disease, ensuring adequate nutrients, and stimulating the young child, yield returns across the lifecycle. Stunting, excessively low height-for-age...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 184034 Document Date: October 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Galasso,Emanuela,Wagstaff, Adam,Naudeau,Sophie,Shekar,Meera

  • Assessing Latin America’s progress toward achieving universal health coverage (English)

    Two commonly-used metrics for assessing progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) involve assessing citizens’ rights to health care and counting the number of people in a financial protection scheme...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 100195 Document Date: October 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wagstaff, Adam,Dmytraczenko,Tania,Almeida, Gisele,Buisman,Leander Robert,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Diaz Cuervo,Beatriz Yadira,Maceira,Daniel A.,Molina, Silvia,Mori Sarti,Flavia,Paraje,Guillermo,Ruiz Mier,Fernando,Tuurie,Scott John,Valdivia Huaringa,Jose Martin,Werneck,Heitor Franco

  • Value judgments in health inequality measurement (English)

    Value judgments lurk beneath the surface in any study of health inequalities; analystsought to understand them, make them explicit, and present results transparently to policymakersso that they, rather...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 104041 Document Date: September 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wagstaff, Adam

  • Inequality of opportunity : reply to Pedro Rosa Dias and Erik Schokkaert (English)

    The authors welcome the comments of Pedro Rosa Dias and Erik Schokkaert on our Editorial as a means of stimulating further debate on the usefulness of estimates of inequality of opportunity, especially...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 100218 Document Date: March 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kanbura, Ravi,Wagstaff, Adam

  • Who benefits from government health spending and why? a global assessment (English)

    This paper uses a common household survey instrument and a common set of imputation assumptions to estimate the pro-poorness of government health expenditure across 69 countries at all levels of income...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7044 Document Date: September 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bilger,Marcel,Bredenkamp,Caryn,Buisman,Leander Robert,Wagstaff, Adam

  • Monitoring progress towards universal health coverage at country and global levels (English)

    Universal health coverage (UHC) has been defined as the desired outcome of health systemperformance whereby all people who need health services (promotion, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliation)...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 104036 Document Date: September 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: BOERMA, TIES,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Evans,David,Evans,Tim,Kieny,Marie-Paule,Wagstaff, Adam

  • The World Bank research observer 29 (2) (English)

    The World Bank Research Observer is intended for anyone who has a professional interest in development. Observer articles are written to be accessible to nonspecialist readers; contributors examine key...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 113057 Document Date: August 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wagstaff, Adam,Bredenkamp,Caryn,R. Buisman,Leander,Dercon,Stefan,Bruhn,Miriam,Mckenzie,David J.,De Hoop,Jacobus Joost,C. Rosati,Furio,Hasnain,Zahid,Manning,Nick,Pierskalla,Jan Henryk