Targeting Resources for the Poor in Bangladesh : Bangladesh Development Series - Paper no. 5 Book

Contents: Acknowledgements. Foreword. Executive summary. Introduction. 1. Health financing and equity in the HNP sector in Bangladesh. 2. Experiences of government and non-government organizations. 3. Resource allocation across districts and upazilas. 4. Developing proxy-means formula. 5. Conclusions and policy options. Bibliography. Annexes.

From the Foreword: "This report reviews several poverty alleviation programs in the public and NGO sector in Bangladesh, and gives valuable information in helping understand the strengths and weaknesses of the methods used for targeting resources to the poor. The world bank supports the government’s policy objective to improve equity and its decision to focus on the poor by developing strategic options that would allow for optimal use and equitable resource allocation to the poor.

This study has provided crucial inputs in the preparation of the current health, nutrition and population sector wide programme-by providing evidence and policy options for the development of an effective tool (the proxy-means) for targeting the poor at the individual as well as the district level."