Search Results - subject:"under five mortality rate"

Child Mortality and Injury in Asia: Policy and programme implications

Michael (et al.) Linnan - 2007

Development Goals for the year 2015. One goal calls for reducing the under-five mortality rate by two thirds from its 1990 level …–1), and about one-half of these occur after the age of five years. Yet, the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) remains the … under-five mortality rate masks several important issues. The high mortality in infancy, age 0 to 1, colours the rates for …

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Child Mortality and Injury in Asia: Survey results and evidence

Michael (et al.) Linnan - 2007

set of Millennium Development Goals for the year 2015. One goal calls for reducing the under-five mortality rate by two … highest power of the surveys. Bangladesh also had the highest under-five mortality rate among the countries surveyed (71 … that time, overall child mortality rates have fallen over 50 per cent in the countries surveyed, as measured by the under-five …

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Child Mortality and Injury in Asia: Survey methods

Michael (et al.) Linnan - 2007

year 2015. One goal calls for reducing the under-five mortality rate by two thirds from its 1990 level. To reach this … (MDG 4) more difficult. MDG 4 requires a reduction in the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) by two thirds from the 1990 …

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Demographic Challenges and the Implications for Children in CEE/CIS

Marnie, Sheila; Menchini, Leonardo - 2007

The first part of this paper documents the striking changes in population size and structures which have occurred since the beginning of transition, and which have led to a substantial reduction in the child population. It is argued that they have been mainly driven by the drop in birth rates...

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Burundi; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This paper discusses the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Burundi. The PRSP comes two and a half years after the approval in January 2004 by the Executive Boards of the IMF and the World Bank of the Interim PRSP (I-PRSP). The PRSP is also the outgrowth of a long period of negotiations...

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Monitoring Progress Towards Millennium Development Goal 4: A Call for Improved Validation of Under-Five Mortality Rate Estimates

Alkema, Leontine; Wong, Maria B.; Seah, Pei Rong - In: Statistics, Politics, and Policy 3 (2012) 2

Abstract Background: Millennium Development Goal 4 calls for a reduction in the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. Due to issues with data quality and quantity, there is uncertainty about how much progress has been made in many countries, and conflicting estimates...

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Bhutan; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

This paper discusses Bhutanâ€™s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). The Royal Government of Bhutan has initiated the PRSP process as part of broader ongoing efforts to combat poverty. The main objective of the PRSP process is to strengthen the strategic framework for poverty reduction,...

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