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paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect … significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among …
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paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect … significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363555
. 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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, 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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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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the Health Sector Reform Strategy. The last section concludes and provides some policy recommendations. …
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, and remittances data to assess the employment and social consequences of the crisis, including falling demand for labor …, rising vulnerable and informal employment, and falling incomes and their related pressures on the working poor. The paper … provides some projections of the impact on unemployment, vulnerable employment, working poverty, and labor productivity in the …
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This paper makes an attempt to estimate the index of informal sector employment which can be attributed to the supply …-led informalization. With improved education, health, and infrastructure facilities the employability of an individual goes up, which, in … investment in the areas of education, health and other infrastructural facilities. …
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This paper demonstrates how 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 the decision to seek a job and parents' wage earnings. It surveys the international...
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In the last twenty years, the Philippines has gained a good progress in poverty reduction. However, compared to other countries in the region, the Philippines is still behind. In the early years of the 21st century, more than a third of the Philippine population lives below the poverty line....
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