Incentives for Improving Birth Registration Coverage : A Review of the Literature

This paper describes a framework of supply and demand factors that could affect birth registration coverage rates, particularly in the context of social transfers. Within this framework, a review of the empirical literature (academic and grey) was...

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spelling okr-10986-318272021-05-25T09:24:24Z Incentives for Improving Birth Registration Coverage : A Review of the Literature World Bank BIRTH REGISTRATION DATA COLLECTION HEALTH POLICY CIVIL REGISTRY INDENTIFICATION CASH TRANSFERS This paper describes a framework of supply and demand factors that could affect birth registration coverage rates, particularly in the context of social transfers. Within this framework, a review of the empirical literature (academic and grey) was conducted on incentives that have been demonstrated to increase birth registration coverage. More than two hundred articles were reviewed, and forty-two (twenty-three academic and nineteen grey) were selected for this study based on relevance. The literature encompassed evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America on linking birth registration with social transfer programs, such as cash transfers, which have resulted in increased birth registration rates. The methods in the literature on incentives for countries to increase birth registration coverage vary. There is a lack of scholarly research on incentives to address both supply and demand barriers for birth registration and a need for more robust literature on the topic. 2019-06-11T19:21:54Z 2019-06-11T19:21:54Z 2018-12-31 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/928651518545413868/Incentives-for-Improving-Birth-Registration-Coverage-A-Review-of-the-Literature http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31827 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Public Sector Study
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topic BIRTH REGISTRATION
DATA COLLECTION
HEALTH POLICY
CIVIL REGISTRY
INDENTIFICATION
CASH TRANSFERS
spellingShingle BIRTH REGISTRATION
DATA COLLECTION
HEALTH POLICY
CIVIL REGISTRY
INDENTIFICATION
CASH TRANSFERS
World Bank
Incentives for Improving Birth Registration Coverage : A Review of the Literature
description This paper describes a framework of supply and demand factors that could affect birth registration coverage rates, particularly in the context of social transfers. Within this framework, a review of the empirical literature (academic and grey) was conducted on incentives that have been demonstrated to increase birth registration coverage. More than two hundred articles were reviewed, and forty-two (twenty-three academic and nineteen grey) were selected for this study based on relevance. The literature encompassed evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America on linking birth registration with social transfer programs, such as cash transfers, which have resulted in increased birth registration rates. The methods in the literature on incentives for countries to increase birth registration coverage vary. There is a lack of scholarly research on incentives to address both supply and demand barriers for birth registration and a need for more robust literature on the topic.
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title Incentives for Improving Birth Registration Coverage : A Review of the Literature
title_short Incentives for Improving Birth Registration Coverage : A Review of the Literature
title_full Incentives for Improving Birth Registration Coverage : A Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Incentives for Improving Birth Registration Coverage : A Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Incentives for Improving Birth Registration Coverage : A Review of the Literature
title_sort incentives for improving birth registration coverage : a review of the literature
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/928651518545413868/Incentives-for-Improving-Birth-Registration-Coverage-A-Review-of-the-Literature
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