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primary health care services; (iii) modernising hospital administration; and (iv) further tightening control over …
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matching estimator. We find that the death of a prime-age member has no significant impact on per-capita household income. This … pursue a mix of income and demographic coping strategies that prevents income losses in the short to medium run. …
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Education and health sectors are known to have massive impact on the quality of human life. In this context, the health … federal transfers improved hospital beds availability in the economically active provinces, which were presumably more …
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In many poor countries with high emigration rates elderly people are left behind without care when their children migrate. Without a functioning market in private care migrants face a difficult trade-off between working their way out of poverty and providing informal care once their parents...
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We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA...
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introduced major structural reforms to fight poverty, improve the quality of education, create more jobs in the formal sector and … structurelles de grande envergure visant à lutter contre la pauvreté, à améliorer la qualité de l’éducation, à créer davantage d … présence des femmes sur le marché du travail des établissements scolaires, pour réduire les lacunes en matière d’éducation des …
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the areas of education, product market regulation and labour markets, as well as improving more basic market institutions … communes semblent nécessaires, notamment pour renforcer les politiques publiques dans les domaines de l’éducation, de la …
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struggling to emerge from the crisis. Reflecting the weakness of this traditional sector, which is labour intensive, unemployment … construction sector.<p> To tackle high and persistent unemployment and thus stave off social exclusion, Ireland needs to further … enhance product-market competition, improve innovation efforts and ameliorate the quality of education, which are key to …
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Irish youth was hit hard by the crisis. Many young workers have remained unemployed for a long time and, unless it is tackled promptly, this issue will become one of the most enduring legacies of the recession. New labourmarket policy initiatives have been introduced recently, but more will be...
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, due to a sharp decline in the results of the most highly disadvantaged students. The unemployment rate for the 20-24 age … situations. Positive discrimination in education policies should be given a real priority and education spending rationalised to …
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