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The human costs of famines outlast the famines themselves. An increasing body of research points to their adverse long-run consequences for those born or in utero during them. This paper offers an introduction to the burgeoning literature on fetal origins and famine through a review of research...
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What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...
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This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …
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regions of Tajikistan. Primary care facilities were given financial incentives conditional on general quality and the quantity … provided of selected services related to reproductive, maternal and child health, and hypertension-related services. The study …
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water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions on health and non-health outcomes, ranging from behavior change-such as the …
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evidence on how public health emergencies have negatively affected socioeconomic development pathways well beyond the crisis … potato-suitable areas after 1900. Our results highlight the interplay between technological change, public health, and …
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health. For this reason, developing countries often do not have the budget to update their estimates of poverty and health …
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caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic … (i) reveals that progress toward improved access to adequate food security and adequate environment and health has been … health …
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countries; the focus in this paper is human health. The main human health impacts of climate change are increased incidence of … the health sector such as disaster reduction programs, food and water security measures, and the provision of … is limited to conventional public health adaptation activities, with a focus on malaria and diarrhea. This study also …
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