This brief presents findings and recommendations drawn from a seven-country review of ActionAid engagement of World Bank/International Monetary Fund policies with particular focus on Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS).
In the Ghale-Tamang Community in Nepal, the system of dual prestige allows marriage as a means to renew relations of quality and hierarchy. Marriage among the Ghail-Tamang communities in the Nepal Himalaya hold a special regard in the dual prestige-change setup. Either political power or marriage are seen as a mode to enhance and alter existing hierarchical relations. Thus, cross-socio-economic status marriages offer opportunity for men and women to claim or renew existing social status.
This three-country study extends the boundaries of traditional benefit-incidence, as just described, in several ways. For instance, it included private as well as well as governmental health service expenditures in an effort to examine the equity of health financing as a whole, rather than only the portion of financing involving the government. It also included the inter-class distribution of the tax revenues used to finance government health expenditures, as well as the expenditures themselves, in order to assess the distribution of the net subsidy (i.e. expenditures less revenues) among socioeconomic groups. And in assessing the equity of the expenditure pattern, it tried to take into account the varying severity of the disease burden among the different socioeconomic groups covered
Because of data limitations in Nepal, it was possible to produce an overall assessment of the health financing equity situation only for Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. In Bangladesh, the health financing situation was found to be regressive; in Sri Lanka, it was progressive.
This paper generates and analyses survey data on inequalities in mortality among infants and children aged under five years by consumption in Brazil, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa and Vietnam.
This paper evaluates government and NGO-implemented programs that targeted poverty alleviation. It evaluates them in terms of cost effectiveness, viability, sustainability and capacity building at the grassroots level.
