Making health markets work better for poor people: the case of informal providers

Making health markets work better for poor people: the case of informal providers.

There has been a dramatic spread of market relationships in many low- and middle-income countries. This spread has been much faster than the development of the institutional arrangements to influence the performance of health service providers. In many countries poor people obtain a large proportion of their outpatient medical care and drugs from informal providers working outside a regulatory ...

Department for International Development Making Markets Work Better for the Poor

Making Services Work for Poor People

Success in reaching the Millennium Development Goals, particularly those related to human development outcomes, will depend not just on faster economic growth and the flow of resources, but on the ability to translate those resources into services. Thus improving service delivery has become a higher policy priority. The purpose of this Research Program is to find new ways to measure the efficac...

Poverty Reduction: Making Markets Work for the Poor

1. This paper provides the framework for IDE’s approach to poverty reduction. It seeks to make explicit the assumptions underlying IDE’s efforts to integrate the rural poor into expanding input and output markets. Its aim is to demonstrate that there is a case for taking specific action to enable the poor—especially the rural poor—to participate in markets both as customers of purchased inputs,...

Poverty Reduction: Making Markets Work for the Poor

1. This paper provides the framework for IDE’s approach to poverty reduction. It seeks to make explicit the assumptions underlying IDE’s efforts to integrate the rural poor into expanding input and output markets. Its aim is to demonstrate that there is a case for taking specific action to enable the poor—especially the rural poor—to participate in markets both as customers of purchased inputs,...