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Part 2: What Really Happens at a BoP Clinic?: A new study shows surprising results
Do trained primary care providers reliably provide better care than untrained ones in BoP communities? That’s one of the questions explored by Jishnu Das, Senior Economist in the Development Research Group at The World Bank, in a recent Health Affairs study on provider quality in India. In Part 2 of his interview with CHMI’s Rose Reis, Das talks about the limitations of existing data on BoP health care quality, the lessons of the study - and its surprising findings on the relative quality of untrained providers.
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Special Series (Part 3): BPO for the BoP : The trials and successes of an early-stage Impact Sourcing Service Provider in Africa
Impact Sourcing Service Providers (ISSPs) constitute a critical component of the emerging Impact Sourcing space. ISSPs are business process outsourcing (BPO) organizations with the specific social objective, often outlined in their mission, to hire workers from poor and vulnerable communities to perform BPO work. ISSPs are emerging in rural areas as reaction to rising costs in Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities in developing countries.
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