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This paper attempts to understand why children often delay school enrolment despite the prediction of human capital theory that schooling should begin at the earliest possible age. We explore different explanations of delayed enrolment but focus particularly on the effect of child health on the...
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ABSTRACT & RÉSUMÉ & ZUSAMMENFASSUNG : Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious diseases. Although, death rates from pandemics dropped globally by about 0.8 % per year, all the way through the 20th century, the number of new infectious diseases like Sars, HIV and...
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In Burkina Faso, the analysis of the impact of the regional urbanization in terms of child malnutrition of less than 5 years, based on a spatial econometrics approach according tothe administrative division of the 30 provinces, using the demographic and health surveys of 1992-93 and 1998-99,...
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In Burkina Faso, the analysis of the consequences of the urbanization in terms of poverty, based on a spatio-time-series approach, organized in function, on the one hand, information of the household surveys – 1994-95 and 1998 –, and the demographic and health surveys – 1992-93 and 1998-99...
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-1996, completed fertility may decrease to less than 2 children per woman born around 1970 and remain constant about 1.9 children per …, we assume that future behaviours will remain identical to the ones observed in 1995-1996, when fertility was quite low … estimated in 1996-1998, years of higher fertility. Results are found to be very consistent with the previous ones. …
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are consistent with a fertility of 1.9 children per woman, which corresponds to the observed fertility since 2000, and an … average age at birth of 30 years. For women, simulations lead to satisfactory results for completed fertility, fertility rate …
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