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Big Data y Algoritmos para la Medición de la Pobreza y el Desarrollo
Sosa Escudero, Walter - 2023
Eritrea es un pequeño país del noreste de África, al que casi todos los rankings ubican entre los tres más pobres del mundo. Eritrea hace 30 años que no tiene un censo (Jerven, 2013). Eritrea es como un hipertenso severo que no puede medirse la presión, que no puede consultar a un médico....
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Cash transfers and child nutrition : what we know and what we need to know
De Groot, Richard; Palermo, Tia; Handa, Sudhanshu; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372681
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From "MeToo" to Boko Haram : a survey of levels and trends of gender inequality in the world
Klasen, Stephan - 2019
This survey argues that after decades of continuous progress in reducing gender inequality in developing and developed countries, since about 2000, there has been an unexpected stagnation and regress in many dimensions of gender inequality in many parts of the world. This is most visible in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025999
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Pension policies, retirement and human capital depreciation in late adulthood
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2020
Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation and considerably less on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. Studying human capital depreciation over the life cycle has powerful economic consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012372883
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The measurement of food insecurity among children : review of literature and concept note
Fram, Maryah S.; Bernal, Jennifer; Frongillo, Edward A. - 2015
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The 2019 update of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators Database : an overview
Wagstaff, Adam; Eozenou, Patrick; Neelsen, Sven; Smitz, Marc - 2019
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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Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countries
Behrman, Jere R. - 2019
children’s human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and health, which pertain directly to some …
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Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations
Qaim, Matin - 2014
Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the … and health impacts have rarely been analyzed. In this article, we argue that future impact studies should include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430772
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Food prices and population health in developing countries : an investigation of the effects of the food crisis using a panel analysis
Lee, Suejin; Lim, Jae-young; I, Hyeon hun; Park, Cyn-Young - 2013
High food prices can be an immediate threat to household food security, undermining population health, retarding human … population health measured by infant mortality rate, child mortality rate, and the prevalence of undernourishment. We find that … rising food prices have a significant and adverse effect on all three health indicators in developing countries. Furthermore …
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A reversal in the relationship of human development with fertility?
Harttgen, Kenneth; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2012 - First version: May 2012, This Version: June 2012
HDI calculation method nor the decomposition of the HDI into its education, standard of living and health sub-indices. …
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