The World Bank's New Health Sector Strategy: Building on Key Assets

The World Bank's new health sector strategy: building on key assets.

For the last decade, the World Bank has been trying to find its footing on shifting ground in global health. In the mid1990s, it saw the blush fade on many health financing and organizational reforms that it actively promoted in middleincome countries in Latin America and elsewhere. Despite the application of big money and lots of brainpower, few of the new incentive programs, insurance mechani...

Building on Complementary Assets in a Unified TCP/IP World

“...the whole world had one language one common speech for all people. The people of the earth became skilled in construction and decided to build a city with a tower that would reach to heaven. By building the tower they wanted to make a name for themselves and also prevent their city from being scattered. God came to see their city and the tower they were building. He perceived their intentio...

Labonté Identifies Key Issues for Health Promoters in the New World Order; Comment on “Health Promotion in an Age of Normative Equity and Rampant Inequality”

For over 35 years Ronald Labonté has been critically analyzing the state of health promotion in Canada and the world. In 1981, he identified the shortcomings of the groundbreaking Lalonde Report by warning of the seductive appeal of so-called lifestyle approaches to health. Since then, he has left a trail of critical work identifying the barriers to — and opportunities for —health promotion wor...

the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran

acknowledge the importance of e-commerce to their countries and to survival of their businesses and in creating and encouraging an atmosphere for the wide adoption and success of e-commerce in the long term. the investment for implementing e-commerce in the public sector is one of the areas which is focused in government‘s action plan for cross-disciplinary it development and e-readiness in go...

Sector Strategy: German Development Policy in the Health Sector