Many developing countries are currently reforming their health care systems and are experimenting with various mechanisms for delivering and financing health care. One such mechanism has been the introduction...
Developing countries are turning increasingly to cost recovery to pay for health care services; but the decision makers who must develop and implement systems for cost recovery are often unfamiliar with...
One of the objectives of the Economic Development Institute (EDI) of the World Bank is to enhance the capacity of developing countries to analyze policy alternatives and to design and implement well-conceived...
Este informe analiza recientes estudios de caso sobre los costos y la eficiencia de cuatro proyectos muy diferentes en América Latina de educación a distancia: 1) En la República Dominicana, los CENAPEC...
This book deals with livestock studies in a global context: the maintenance of biological diversity, the international implications of the dominance of meat production in agriculture in the European Economic...
In 1983 the Economic Development Institute (EDI) made three important decisions concerning its transport activities. First, it planned to shift the emphasis in these activities from teaching project analysis...
The purpose of this manual is to introduce people trained in health professions, but not in economics, to the basic economic principles that will best help them decide how to allocate resources in the...
This guide provides a brief outline of the neoclassical theory of the public sector to put into context the reason for deriving shadow prices and to help the reader understand what it is that a government...
This guide provides a brief outline of the neoclassical theory of the public sector to put into context the reason for deriving shadow prices and to help the reader understand what it is that a government...