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 …

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 …

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 …

„h States and Territories have agreed to apply competitive neutrality (CN) requirements to their commercial forestry …

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 …

This paper explores the consequences of rising returns to human capital investment on the personal savings rate. Over … to argue the presence of 'skill biased technological progress'. The literature explaining household savings has also … negative relationship between returns to education and savings rates across most of the past century and also a negative …

MOBILIZING DOMESTIC SAVINGS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND THE CONSTRAINTS IN THE EFFICIENT PERFORMANCE OF THIS ROLE. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE …

profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly …

, contrary to a pure neoclassical model, domestic savings should act as a complement rather than a substitute to capital inflows …