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attainment and health in Indonesia, and compare it with the effect of chronic poverty. We also investigate whether there are any … no significant health effects of orphanhood. Meanwhile, chronically poor children have worse health and education … outcomes. Among young children, the adverse effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly worse than that of …
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In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …
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Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...
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We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As source of variation we use changes in the eligibility criteria for receipt of an unconditional cash transfer in Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which...
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Background: Family education investment is a key factor in reducing intergenerational transmission of poverty. At the … price of higher health risk, the poor may overdraw their bodies to earn more money to invest in education. This study … investigates the effect of physical overdraft, health risks and health insurance on poverty and economic growth. Methods: This …
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Investments in health and education are vital in reducing inequalities of opportunity and outcome, developing a country … well subnational financing of health and education in all 82 low- and middle-income countries, including all Least … Developed Countries, targets the worst health and education outcomes. The report recommends that: governments and education …
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Health data at the national level do not reveal the inequalities associated with poverty within a country; therefore … national progress toward health goals can be made without much improvement in the health status of the poor. Poverty quintile … analysis is useful here: it disaggregates data on health indicators by the socioeconomic status of households. In this report …
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This paper provides a selective survey of the literature to date on poverty, equity and health outcomes. It begins with … an overview of the methods that can be used to measure poor/non-poor inequalities in health outcomes, and then reviews … understanding the causes of poor/non-poor inequalities in health outcomes, distinguishing between the effects of inequalities in the …
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This guide introduces inter-country programs concerned with poverty, equity, and health. The guide consists of two …; Investments in Health Equity and Poverty Project (IHELP); Network for Health Systems and Services Research in the Southern Cone …, and Poverty; Project on Managing and Financing Health to Reduce the Impact of Poverty in the Caribbean Region; ECuity …
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