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Reviews the experience of workers in developing countries during the global financial crisis of 2009, asseses the recovery, and provides new evidence on the policy response that countries undertook in response to the crisis.

Depois de quase um quarto de seculo de implementacao de reformas para a cobertura universal de saude, e chegada a hora de avaliar como a regiao se saiu neste sentido.

The demand for workforce skills is changing in Vietnam's dynamic economy. In addition to job-specific skills, Vietnamese employers value cognitive skills, like problem solving, and behavioural skills, like team work. This book presents an agenda of change for Vietnam's education system to prepare workers to succeed in Vietnam's modernizing economy.

Argentina is a success story in combating HIV/AIDS. This study analyses the burden of disease, the demand and supply-sides of service delivery, the financial dimension, and provides best practices about key programmatic innovations that have had a pivotal role in reducing incidence and burden in Argentina.

Textbooks need to be readily available in low-income countries, to help trump the adverse effects of large class-sizes, poorly motivated and inadequately trained teachers, and short effective school years. Sub-Saharan African governments and publishers can do better in terms of quality, availability, and cost.

After nearly a quarter century of implementing universal coverage reforms, it is apt to take stock of how well the region has fared. This volume reviews progress in reducing inequalities in health outcomes, service utilization, and financial protection, and assesses the common trends emerging from these reforms.

Cet ouvrage examine la situation, les caracteristiques, la performance et le financement des filets sociaux en Afrique. Il identifie comment les gouvernements peuvent renforcer les filets sociaux afin que mieux proteger les pauvres et amelioration leur situation.

Examines the health and nutrition challenges in urban Bangladesh, looking at socioeconomic determinants in general and at health sector governance in particular. Using a mixed methods approach, the study identifies critical areas such as financing, regulation, service delivery, and public environmental health that require policy attention.

The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region is making progress in opening the doors of development to all. But it still has a long way to go. At the current pace, it would take, on average, a generation for the region to achieve universal access to the basic services that make for human opportunity. This book assesses the status and evolution of human opportunity in LAC.

In Indonesia, the past two decades have been a time of great progress but also massive transformations and abrupt setbacks. In this context, this book reviews the main characteristics of - and trends in - demand for skills in Indonesia.

Examines projected demographic changes that will affect the economic well-being of China's rural elderly over the next twenty years, taking into account both China's sharp demographic transition and the continued migration of young adults into cities. The book also documents the sources of financial support, poverty incidence and vulnerability of the rural elderly since the early 1990s.

La couverture sanitaire universelle pour un developpement durable inclusif synthetise les experiences de 11 pays - Bangladesh, Bresil, Ethiopie, France, Ghana, Indonesie, Japon, Perou, Thailande, Turquie et Vietnam - dans la mise en oeuvre de politiques et de strategies d'atteinte et de maintien de la CSU.

Despues de casi un cuarto de siglo de implementar reformas de cobertura universal, ha llegado el momenta para hacer un balance de las logros en la region. Este volumen analiza el progreso en la reducci6n de las desigualdades en los resultados de salud, la utilizaci6n de los servicios y la protecci6n financiera.

II faudra, pour atteindre les cibles de nutrition fixees par l' Asssemblee mondiale de la sante en matiere de retard de croissance, danemie chez la femme, d'allaitement matemel exclusif et d'emaciation, proceder a des financ.ements mondiaux de 70 milliards de dollars sur lOans dans des interventions specifiques a la nutrition a fort impact.

Provides a status update on the human resources for health sub-system in six Latin American and Caribbean countries: Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay. The report structures its discussion around how the health workforce is financed, organised, managed, regulated, and performing.