Poverty and the Policy Response to the Economic Crisis in Liberia.
Title:
Poverty and the Policy Response to the Economic Crisis in Liberia.
Author:
Wodon, Quentin.
ISBN:
9780821389478
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (212 pages)
Series:
World Bank Studies
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Poverty and the Policy Response to the Economic Crisis in Liberia: Brief Overview -- Part I: Poverty and Human Development Diagnostic -- 2. Poverty in Liberia: Level, Profile, and Determinants -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Poverty Profile and Determinants -- 4. Conclusion -- Annex: Sensitivity of Poverty Estimates to Caloric Threshold -- 3. Education in Liberia: Basic Diagnostic Using the 2007 CWIQ Survey -- 1. Introduction -- 2. School Enrollment, Reason for Not Enrolling, and Satisfaction with Schools -- 3. Benefit Incidence of Public Spending for Education -- 4. Correlates of School Enrollment -- 5. Conclusion -- 4. Health in Liberia: Basic Diagnostic Using the 2007 CWIQ Survey -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Patterns of Morbidity, Likelihood of Seeking Care, and Reason for Not Seeking Care -- 3. Benefit Incidence of Public Spending for Health -- 4. Determinants of the Demand for Care -- 5. Conclusion -- Part II: Impact of Higher Food Prices and Fiscal Measures to Respond to the Crisis -- 5. Rice Prices and Poverty in Liberia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rice Production and Consumption in Liberia: A Brief Review -- 3. Rice Production and Consumption in the 2007 CWIQ Survey -- 4. Simulating the Impact on Poverty of Changes in the Price of Rice -- 5. Conclusion -- 6. Benefit Incidence of Fiscal Measures to Deal with the Impact on Households of the Economic Crisis in Liberia: Comparing Import and Income Taxes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Benefit Incidence of Taxes on Imported Foods -- 3. Benefit Incidence of Proposed Income Tax Reform -- 4. Conclusion -- Part III: Evaluation of the Cash for Work Temporary Employment Program -- 7. Ex Ante Assessment of the Potential Impact of Labor-Intensive Public Works in Liberia -- 1. Introduction.
2. Potential Demand for Employment Programs -- 3. Potential Poverty Impact of Public Works -- 4. Conclusion -- 8. Liberia's Cash for Work Temporary Employment Project: Responding to Crisis in Low Income, Fragile Countries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Food Price Crisis in Liberia -- 3. High Need, Low Capacity: Cash for Work in the Liberian Context -- 4. Weaving the Safety Net: Design Elements of the Cash for Work Project -- 5. Implementation Elements -- 6. Measuring Progress: Key Impact Findings and Project Feedback -- 7. Moving Forward: Lessons Learned and Future Planning -- 9. Impact of Labor-Intensive Public Works in Liberia: Results from a Light Evaluation Survey -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evaluation of the Cash for Work Program -- 3. Conclusion -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
Any analysis of health financing issues has to begin with sound estimates of the level and flow of resources in a health system, including total levels of spending, the sources of health expenditures, the uses of funds in terms of services purchased, and in terms of who purchases them. The analysis should also aim at understanding how these resource flows are correlated with health system outcomes, including those of improving health, reducing health inequalities, and reducing the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure. National Health Accounts (NHA) provide a framework to collect, compile, and analyze such data on all types of health spending in a country-and so create a robust evidence base for policy making.Although NHA data delineate the key financial metrics of a health system, the collection of these data have not been institutionalized in most developing countries. The root problems are often the same: insufficient resources to collect, collate, analyze and produce information on spending; poor development of health and other information systems; low levels of local capacity to interpret information to meet policy needs; and inadequate demand for data within countries. Furthermore, in many low- and middle-income countries, NHA activities have been conducted as ad hoc, donor-driven initiatives. Since 2008, the World Bank has been coordinating a global initiative to identify bottlenecks to the institutionalization of NHA, and to learn lessons in countries at different stages on the journey towards this institutionalization. The focus has been less on the production of NHA and more on its relevance as a tool to enable policy makers develop and implement evidence-based decisions, and better measure the impact of health reforms, especially those related to health financing. This report has been developed through a consultative process,
involving experts and policy makers from more than fifty low-, middle- and high-income countries, large and small, in all corners of the world, development partners and World Bank staff globally. The report represents a synthesis of lessons learned from country experiences and is intended to serve as a strategic guide to countries and their development partners as they design and implement their strategy to develop nationally relevant and internationally comparable data, collected in a routine and cost-effective manner.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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