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health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and … also in terms of non-traditional measures, such as self-rated poverty and happiness. The BLSS 2012, together with the BLSS …
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The threat from dengue has grown dramatically. The World Health Organization estimates that there may be up to 100 …
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set of 35 indicators as measures of income and non-income outcomes of inclusive growth; the processes and inputs that are … correlations between indicators of poverty and inequality outcomes, on the one hand, and indicators for processes, inputs, and good …
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Viewed as a key to strengthening accountability, citizen empowerment alone is not enough to guarantee quality public service. It must go hand in hand with better governance. This report highlights two factors that have improved governance and public service provision in developing Asia: (i)...
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This report presents the results of purchasing power parities (PPPs) in the 2011 International Comparison Program in Asia and the Pacific and background information on the concepts that underpin the results. The PPPs are disaggregated by major economic aggregates that enable robust cross-country...
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In this contribution the authors show that development assistance targeting reproductive health overwhelmingly … 1994. Part of the explanation is that future health needs are difficult to predict, but it also shows how strong the … development assistance for reproductive health is at some points ill-adjusted towards the needs of developing countries. …
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biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study.We find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to understanding …
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This paper studies the interplay between climate, health, and the economy in a stylized world with four heterogeneous …). We introduce health impacts into a simple integrated assessment model where both the local cooling effect of aerosols as … show how some of the important aspects of the equilibrium, including emission abatement rates, health costs, and economic …
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We develop a synthetic difference-in-differences statistical design to apply to experimental data for adult women living in Hennepin County, Minnesota, to estimate the impact of Medicaid managed care on various modes of medical care use.Because the outcomes of interest are utilization counts...
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are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).The empirical analysis shows that health … is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …' participation decisions.Health effects differ markedly between countries.A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …
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