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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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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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ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper examining the pattern of poverty among the rural population of the Bihar state, India … - covers nutrition, food security, housing, total consumption, health, demographic aspects, educational level, political …
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ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper on poverty in terms of basic needs and standard of living in Ecuador … - considers rural areas and urban areas social indicators including health, nutrition, educational level and housing; examines … regional disparities; compares deprivation patterns with income distribution. References, statistical tables. …
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development; examines literacy rates, access to education, nutrition, health, housing and sanitation; discusses poverty, basic … - looks at land tenure, agricultural production, rural area infrastructure, income distribution, and obstacles to agricultural …
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associations between poverty (land ownership, consumer expenditure, housing, nutrition, health, etc.) and demographic variables …ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper examining interaction between poverty and population dynamics in the Bihar rural area … poverty. References, statistical tables. …
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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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