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health of a population when other data are not available. We investigate how informative this approach is in terms of … of sample for countries where we lack income and health data. …
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importance of WASH services for public health outcomes, the effectiveness of WASH aid should also be evaluated in terms of its … impact on health outcomes. This is especially important in low- and middle-income countries where achieving sustained … improvements in child health outcomes remains a challenge. This paper uses geocoded sub-national data on the location of WASH aid …
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children’s human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and health, which pertain directly to some …
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effects on women's wellbeing. We analyse the consequences of sterilization on maternal health. To do so, we take advantage of … datasets that record information on various symptoms in the reproductive sphere or anthropometric and biological measurements …
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In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on...
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This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries …
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This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and …-quality services so as to steer societies away from being marginalized by the information and communication technology revolution. …
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This paper presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place over the past three decades. The paper gives especial emphasis to the role of natural endowments, political economy, social structure and history,...
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between the market, the state, and the community, a perspective articulated in the Stockholm Statement. …
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There are large volumes of gas offshore Tanzania, which has raised hopes of a boom. But those hopes look set to be disappointed. A boom would depend on there being a sizeable flow of revenue to government from producing and exporting gas. This paper sets out the scale of the gas, and the array...
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