Fuente: The Economist

Brazil's Bolsa Família -- The limits of Brazil's much admired and emulated anti-poverty programme.

Fuente: Americas Quartely Conditional cash transfer programs reach 100 million Latin Americans. CCT programs are now widespread in Latin America. Fifteen countries run CCT programs, benefiting approximately 100 million people and 21 million households.

Fuente: Preventing Chronic Disease

The pace of progress in population health can be influenced by the incentives in play and the metrics that trigger them. The MATCH (Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health) articles in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease explore the use of incentives to improve population health and hold implications for the development and application…

Fuente: Issuu This book in PDF draws on two of the World Bank's flagship publications, the Global Monitoring Report and the World Development Indicators.

Fuente: The Lancet The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent an unprecedented global consensus about measures to reduce poverty. The eight goals address targets to

Fuente: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health Political, historical, intellectual and economic context of a Latin American/North American discussion about societal determinants of between-country and within-country health inequities

Fuente: Reuters U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will announce on Wednesday a $40 billion launch to a plan to save the lives of 16 million women and children over the next five years

Fuente: The Seattle Times (Seattle Time) The Business of Giving. Exploring philanthropy, non-profits and socially motivated business, from the Gates Foundation to your donation. A fresh look at the economy of good intentions.

Fuente: The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Philanthropy) A fledgling international health project backed by the world's richest man, the Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim...

Fuente: Adeline D, RAND; Xavier Giné; David McKenzie The majority of economic decisions are forward looking and thus involve expectations of future outcomes. Understanding the expectations that individuals have is thus of crucial importance to designing and evaluating policies in health