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Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades …
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GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES,...
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We set up an open-economy, three-country version of the endogenous- mortality model of Lagerloef (forthcoming in the … International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting … parameters to match observed rates of correlation in mortality rates, the model can also account for: (1) differences in the …
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Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades,...
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The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in …
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In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...
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Indonesia (BRI). This situation could be indicated that banking institution just gives little attention on the rural households …
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affected countries. It focuses on three main countries—Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The analysis shows that there … continuum of effects, with Indonesia most heavily hit, the Philippines the least so, and Thailand somewhere in between. (b … migration has had a major impact. In Indonesia, the weakening of government authority and enforcement powers is also a major …
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With an estimated loss of up to 20 million ha of forest over the past decade, deforestation in Indonesia has come to … the forefront of global environmental concerns. Indonesia is one of the most important areas of tropical forests worldwide … global importance because of their biodiversity and the carbon they sequester. Despite the benefits they provide, Indonesia …
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economical resurrection in Indonesia. …
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