Reaching Urban Poor Hypertensive Patients

Closing the poor-rich gap in contraceptive use in urban Kenya: are family planning programs increasingly reaching the urban poor?

INTRODUCTION Kenya is characterized by high unmet need for family planning (FP) and high unplanned pregnancy, in a context of urban population explosion and increased urban poverty. It witnessed an improvement of its FP and reproductive health (RH) indicators in the recent past, after a period of stalled progress. The objectives of the paper are to: a) describe inequities in modern contraceptiv...

Reaching the Poor

INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 2033 K STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006-1002 PHONE: +1-202-862-5600 FAX: +1-202-467-4439 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: www.ifpri.org In the last two decades, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh have provided millions of poor rural people with savings and credit services at low cost. With these services they have reduced poverty, and m...

On not reaching the rural poor: Urban bias in poverty policy

In a country where for many generations the virtues of rural life have appeared to be a t the heart of the national ethos, there currently exists astonishingly little hard information about critical economic and social aspects of that life. That, a t least, is the conclusion of a recent review of research into the economics of rural poverty by economists Keith Bryant, Lee Bawden, and WilliarnSa...

Reaching Poor Areas in a Federal System

The welfare outcomes of decentralized federal programs aiming to reduce poverty nationally will depend on the reactions of diverse provincial governments. Central targeting of poor provinces improved under World Bank sponsored reforms to an Argentinean anti-poverty program. However, provincial ability at reaching poor areas was a more important factor in overall success. There was diverse, but ...

Targeting Reaching the Rural Poor Policy