Sanitation

This paper tests the hypothesis that participation in conditional cash transfers would be associated with increasing body mass index.

Incorrect knowledge of the health production function may lead to inefficient household choices, and thereby to the production of suboptimal levels of health. This paper studies the effects of a randomised intervention in rural Malawi which, over a six-month period, provided mothers of young infants with information on child nutrition without supplying any monetary or in-kind resources.

The FINISH project will test whether the use of microfinance for rural sanitation can be implemented at scale, in order to: accelerate access by the poor to demand-led sanitation, resulting in health, economic, and social impact; and greater sustainability in sanitation service delivery.

FINISH - Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health - is a joint undertaking of a wide range of actors that came together to address the challenges of micro finance, insurance and sanitation and health.

FINISH - Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health - is a joint undertaking of a wide range of actors that came together to address the challenges of micro finance, insurance and sanitation and health.

Despite current emphasis on health insurance expansions in developing countries, inefficient consumer incentives for over-use of medical care are an important counterbalancing concern.

The period from 2003 to the summer of 2008 saw significant and sustained increases in global food prices, especially for staple goods such as maize, rice and wheat.

This is an update in February 2010 on the progress of the FINISH project in India.

We study food Engel curves among the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia.

This paper models how migration both influences and responds to differences in disease prevalence between cities, regions and countries, and show how the possibility of migration away from high-prevalence areas affects long-run steady state disease prevalence.

This report, in Spanish, evaluates the first wave of the survey, Familias en Acción.