Poor children face barriers to healthy development even before The World Bank actively partners with governments they are born. Their mothers may not have nutritious food or around the world to develop innovative approaches to improper prenatal care, which can harm a baby's brain develop- proving lives and boosting shared prosperity. Knowing what
ment when it needs it most. Mothers may not deliver in a health works is part of succeeding and impact evaluations often are facility nor have a skilled used to measure whether programs are having the desired birth attendant pres- effect. In Argentina, the World Bank supported a governent, increasing the risk ment program, Plan Nacer, to improve maternal-child health of complications and outcomes through increased coverage and quality of health ultimately putting their services. The program gives provincial authorities financial life and that of the baby incentives for enrolling pregnant women and children in the at risk.
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ARGENTINA: Can Performance Payments Improve Newborn Health?
Poor children face barriers to healthy development even before The World Bank actively partners with governments they are born. Their mothers may not have nutritious food or around the world to develop innovative approaches to improper prenatal care, which can harm a baby's brain develop- proving lives and boosting shared prosperity. Knowing what
ment when it needs it most. Mothers may not deliver in a health works is part of succeeding and impact evaluations often are facility nor have a skilled used to measure whether programs are having the desired birth attendant pres- effect. In Argentina, the World Bank supported a governent, increasing the risk ment program, Plan Nacer, to improve maternal-child health of complications and outcomes through increased coverage and quality of health ultimately putting their services. The program gives provincial authorities financial life and that of the baby incentives for enrolling pregnant women and children in the at risk.