Maintaining Momentum to 2015 : An Impact Evaluation of Interventions to Improve Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in Bangladesh
This report addresses the issue of what publicly-supported programs and external assistance from the Bank and other agencies can do to accelerate attainment of targets such as reducing infant mortality by two-thirds. The evidence presented here rel...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/6433515/maintaining-momentum-2015-impact-evaluation-interventions-improve-maternal-child-health-nutrition-bangladesh http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7372 |
| Summary: | This report addresses the issue of what
publicly-supported programs and external assistance from the
Bank and other agencies can do to accelerate attainment of
targets such as reducing infant mortality by two-thirds. The
evidence presented here relates to Bangladesh, a country
which has made spectacular progress but needs to maintain
momentum in order to achieve its own poverty reduction
goals. The report addresses the following issues: (1) What
has happened to child health and nutrition outcomes and
fertility in Bangladesh since 1990? Are the poor sharing in
the progress which is being made? (2) What have been the
main determinants of maternal and child health outcomes in
Bangladesh over this period? (3) Given these determinants,
what can be said about the impact of publicly and
externally-supported programs - notably those of the World
Bank and DFID - to improve health and nutrition? (4) To the
extent that interventions have brought about positive
impacts, have they done so in a cost effective manner? |
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