On October 25, 2024, International Development Association (IDA) Board of Governors adopted resolution number two hundred and fifty-four. It was resolved that the Board of Governors of the Association...
On October 24, 2024, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Board of Governors adopted resolution number seven hundred and nine. It was resolved that the Board of Governors of...
On October 25, 2024, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Board of Governors adopted resolution number two hundred and eighty-two. It was resolved that the Board of Governors of the Corporation consider...
In fiscal year (FY) 2023, 41 percent of the World Bank Group financing had climate co-benefits, compared to 36 percent in FY 2022. Actual climate co-benefits in dollar amounts from IBRD/IDA rose from 26.2...
This budget brief is part of a series of bi-annual reports summarizing developments in Myanmar’s public finances. The report relies on data from published reports of the Ministry of Planning and Finance...
This paper describes a program in Côte d’Ivoire designed to assess and enhance the competence of primary health care providers using clinical vignettes. The initiative provided training to district supervisors...
On October 13, 2023, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Board of Governors adopted resolution number seven hundred. It was resolved that the Board of Governors of the Bank...
The budget allocation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic indicates an increase in both health and non-health sectors, together with policy prioritization to mitigate socioeconomic damage globally. In...
Health care workers (HCWs) face disproportionate risk of exposure and becoming ill in any infectious disease outbreak. SARS-CoV-2 has proven to be no exception: From Wuhan to Manaus, London to Tehran...
“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...
The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has made significant progress in improving the management of public finances under the Public Financial Management Reform Program (PFMRP). Key achievements include...
For decades, the health care system in Azerbaijan has faced constraints, following until recently the Semashko model, with its centralized planning of resources and personnel, primarily public ownership...
The Pacific Observatory is a World Bank initiative to increase data availability and quality and to promote evidence-based policy decisions. This presentation utilizes data from the Pacific Observatory’s...
Costa Rica implemented a “Program for results to strengthen Universal Health Insurance” and one of the program’s disbursements linked indicators (DLI-4) focuses on the design and implementation of Integrated...
Trade in health services is part of the larger phenomenon of globalization of services, wherein services have become increasingly tradeable through different modes of delivery and are playing a growing...
The Republic of Congo (ROC) has enacted an organic law requiring the preparation and execution of the government budget following the programmatic approach rather than the traditional line-item budgeting...
The analysis of Fiscal space in the health sector allows us to identify and document the different opportunities and limitations of creating additional financial resources in the health sector without...