Branchless banking has great potential to extend the distribution of financial services to poor people who are not reached by traditional bank branch networks; it lowers the cost of delivery, includin...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43632Fecha: 1 de abril de 2008Autor:
Ivatury, Gautam J. ;
Mas Ribo, Ignacio
In this paper the authors put forth a vision in which people are able to make small deposits into their bank account through a variety of cash handling outlets right in their neighborhood. In fact, bu...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43631Fecha: 1 de abril de 2008Autor:
Mas Ribo, Ignacio
Building on two decades of education reform, Brazil's Ministry of Education (MEC) implemented a key instrument for measuring education quality in 2005, when it first administered Prova Brasil, a natio...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44691Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2008Autor:
Amorim, Erica Pereira ;
Parandekar, Suhas D. ;
Welsh, Andrea
From December 2006 to April 2007, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) evaluation office carried out an evaluation of GEF support to the Philippines. This was the second in an ongoing series of evalu...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 57585Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2008
This new investment stream is good news for microfinance providers. Microfinance needs a broader capital market to secure the funding required to scale up outreach and serve a greater number of financ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43629Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2008Autor:
Reille, Xavier ;
Forster, Sarah Jacqueline
The Indonesian health card program was part of the Social Safety Net Program (SSN) mounted by the Indonesian Government in response to the economic crisis in the fall of 1997. Even though similar sche...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 51774Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
Cambodia's Health Equity Funds (HEFs) seek to address the classic limitation of efforts to exempt the poor from user fees: the loss of income that such exemptions have typically represented for servic...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43718Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
In transformational branchless banking, technology plays the key role of inexpensively transmitting transaction details between the customer, the retail agent, the financial service provider, and thir...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 42703Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Lyman , Timothy R ;
Pickens , Mark ;
Porteous
The Kyrgyz experience illustrates that limiting patient financial burden is possible in a poor country with limited fiscal space through more efficient use of public resources. This lesson is particul...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43722Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
Argentina's youth 6.7 million between the ages of 15 and 24 are an important, but to a certain extent untapped, resource for development. Over 2 million (31 percent) have already engaged in risky beha...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53817Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Verner, Dorte
Mexico's seguro popular (Popular Health Insurance) program represents an effort to overcome the classic problem in reaching the poor through insurance programs: the difficulty of providing adequate co...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43057Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
The design of many development policies continues to assume wrongly that farmers and rural workers are men. The important role of women in agriculture in many parts of the world calls for urgent atten...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 41385Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
Universal health care programs are typically created with the objective of improving access to care among the poor and addressing persistent inequalities. The experience of Brazil described here sugge...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43721Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
Rwanda was recovering from the genocide of 1994, during which nearly a million of its people died. Gradually, the social fabric is being stitched together with support from the international community...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 51776Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
In 2001, after a long period of recession, Argentina faced the greatest economic, political, and institutional crisis in its history. Unemployment reached levels nearing 18 percent and the poverty rat...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53816Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Stubbs, Josefina
Malaria infects over 500 million people worldwide each year. The most vulnerable are infants, young children, and pregnant women. Pregnant women are vulnerable, their immunity to malaria is decreased ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43059Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
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