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significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among … paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect … young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty …
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significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among … paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect … young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty …
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jointly explains patterns of political participation at the individual level and differences in public investment in education …
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, achieve a socioeconomic and health status similar to that of their nonmigrant counterparts living in the same city. Using … to be absolutely poor than nonmigrants. Their health performance and that of their children are also no different from … the health status of nonmigrants. There is only weak, and not robust, evidence that children of migrants have a higher …
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responsibleneed not delay reforms in higher education. In fact, the global recession is an opportune time for higher education in the … efficiency, and regional collaboration. This paper proposes a series of measures to increase the resilience of higher education … programs of study; (iii) community-based vocational and technical higher education that provides jobs in a rapidly changing …
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This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to poverty in the Philippines. It examines one of the mechanisms behind this link by focusing on the relation between number of children and school attendance of children 6 to 24 years old. It surveys the international...
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Higher education in India suffers from several systemic deficiencies. As a result, it continues to provide graduates … academic research are low and declining. Some of the problems of the Indian higher education, such as the unwieldy affiliating … little informed public debate on higher education in India. …
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the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …
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. Since 2003, the local health agency (Bapel) has been quite successful in managing this program. The program that is funded … differences in the type and extent of health services offered by the two of them. The outcome of the findings shows that puskesmas … are the communitys very poor socio-economic conditions, endemic malaria, minimal numbers of health workers in rural areas …
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The cutback in public investment in social sector including health is an inevitable consequence of the financial crises … deficiencies of the public health services rather added fuel to the fire. Circumstances made it pertinent to mobilise additional … resources from within the health sector itself, as contained in the structural adjustment programme, for financing the health …
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