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Maintaining Momentum to 2015? An impact evaluation of interventions to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in Bangladesh

White, Howard; Masset, Edoardo; Blondal, Nina; … - EconWPA - 2005

Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades … public sector interventions, notably reproductive health and immunization, supported by external assistance from the World …

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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR:NIGERIA

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

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, ESPECIALLY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NIGERIA, THE …

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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

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, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …

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Trends in East European Factor Productivity

Kyn, Oldrich; Kyn, Ludmila - EconWPA - 2005

During the 1960s most of the countries of Eastern Europe experienced a visible retardation of economic growth. This paper supports the view of many Eastern as well as Western economists that the retardation was caused primarily by declining rates of growth of the total factor productivity. The...

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Production Function of Skilled and Unskilled Labour in a Model of a Non-Growing Russian Economy. - Aberdeen: ILM Conference Proceedings, October 11-12, 1999. PP.560-575.

Olenev, Nicholas - EconWPA - 2003

This paper builds a production function of skilled and unskilled labour for the economy that does not grow. The paper uses the constant elasticity of substitution production function (CES) of skilled and unskilled labour on the micro level as an important building stone. The paper obtains a...

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The technological theory of production and a method of decomposition of the rate of GDP in terms of labour and capital services

Pokrovski, Vladimir - EconWPA - 2003

It is assumed that performance of production system can be described with the three variables: amount of production equipment -- capital stock $K$ and 'consumption' of labour L and capital services S. It is shown that the production function can be specified as the known Cobb- Douglas production...

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Production Functions Estimates for Soviet Industry and Some Implications

Kyn, Oldrich; Wagener, Hans-Juergen; Hocke, Joerg - EconWPA - 2005

This study presents estimation of production functions for the Soviet industry from the 1951—1970 data. Different specifications and estimation procedures were tried. The results diverged on a wide range and this may have serious implications. The paper shows possible effects of different...

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The Effects of Life Expectancy on Fiji's Output: A Time Series Approach from 1970 to 2002

Rao, B Bhaskara; Nisha, Fozia; Prasad, Biman C - EconWPA - 2005

effects of health on the output of Fiji for the period 1970 to 2002. …

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Restructuring and Measurement of Efficiency in Firms in Transition

Benacek, Vladimir; Shemetilo, Dmitri; Petrov, Alexei - EconWPA - 2001

In this paper we try to explain some restructuring patterns of Czech textile and clothing industries from a microeconomic point of view. We introduce two measures of production efficiency (the technical and the allocative efficiency) and look at changes in the behaviour of enterprises. In 1994,...

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DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH RATE: SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES WITH DATA FROM FIJI

Rao, Bhaskara; Rao, Maheshwar - EconWPA - 2005

Compared to many cross-country studies on the determinants of growth rate, time series approaches are relatively few and limited in scope. However, time series studies are useful for country-specific policies. But in many recent works ad hoc specifications have been used to analyze the...

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