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interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative. These poverty, health, and nutrition outcomes include both …
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The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...
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health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and … also in terms of non-traditional measures, such as self-rated poverty and happiness. The BLSS 2012, together with the BLSS …
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This study examines ethnic based differences in economic and health status. We combine existing literature with our … analysis of data from the Canadian Census and National Population Health Survey. If a given sub-topic is well researched, we …-differentiated. Yet recent immigrants, especially from Asia, are advantaged in health outcomes compared to Canadian-born persons – the …
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Income Dynamics, we study the health transitions for those who were in good health in the first year, focussing especially on … income and education. The initial good health restriction removes from the sample those whose incomes may have been affected … -- that changes in health status over the subsequent two years are related in particular to income and education. …
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Income Dynamics, we study the health transitions for those who were in good health in the first year, focussing especially on … income and education. The initial good health restriction removes from the sample those whose incomes may have been affected … that changes in health status over the subsequent two years are related in particular to income and education. …
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efficiency and poverty reduction. Overall, regression results confirm the negative impact of health impediment on farmers … probit. This framework allows policy simulations that underscore the impact of farmers' health status on both agricultural …' agricultural efficiency. Simulation results show that improving farmers' agricultural efficiency by investing in farmers' health …
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income that makes households resilient to health shocks; it provides food to meet their nutrient and energy needs; and it …In the 21st century, agriculture remains fundamental to economic growth, poverty alleviation, improvement in rural … livelihood. This report provides an overview of current knowledge of the impact of health issues on farm-level productivity and …
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we argue that health improvements do not have to wait for national income to rise. Many countries have experienced large … health gains without prior income gains, and in countries not affected by HIV/AIDS the last 40 years have largely been a …Health is a key component of the human development index. This paper looks at how health is measured, how the level of …
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going back to the beginning of the 20th century several basic facts about the relationship between national income and life … national income and life expectancy will not persist, particularly over the ranges of income of primary interest to the Human … existing “puzzles” come from using either very short time-horizons or very small moves in income per capita when the Preston …
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