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Wealth: Crucial but Not Sufficient Evidence from Pakistan on Economic Growth, Child Labor, and Schooling
Hou, Xiaohui - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth is crucial in determining a child's activities, but...
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Costed Plan for Scaling Up Nutrition: Nigeria
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2014
This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261537
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Community Midwifery Education Program in Afghanistan
Mohmand, Khalil Ahmad - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
In the immediate post conflict period, Afghanistan's health services were in a deplorable and chaotic state. Access and utilization of reproductive health services and skilled care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the first month after delivery are key to saving those women at risk of dying due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010770371
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Scaling Up Nutrition for a More Resilient Mali: Nutrition Diagnostics and Costed Plan for Scaling Up
Shekar, Meera; Mattern, Max; Eozenou, Patric; Eberwein, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
This paper builds on the global experience and Mali?s context to identify an effective nutrition approach as well as costs and benefits of key nutrition programs, as part of a resilience agenda after the crisis. It is intended to help guide the selection of the most cost-effective interventions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265836
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Modeling Services Liberalization: The Case of Tanzania
Jensen, Jesper; F. Rutherford, F. Rutherford , Thomas; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008
This paper employs a 52-sector, small, open-economy computable general equilibrium model of the Tanzanian economy to assess the impact of the liberalization of regulatory barriers against foreign and domestic business service providers in Tanzania. The model incorporates productivity effects in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141745
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Pakistan: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance
El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
to maternal care by residence and wealth quintiles. Moreover fertility reduction has been slow at 3.3 in 2012 and … Delivery Standard for quality services; and improving maternal and child nutrition. Fertility reduction has been slow at 3.3 in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213930
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South Asia: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance
El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
The South Asia Region (SAR) includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. With over 1.6 billion people, it is the most densely populated region in the world. The populations vary from 400,000 in the Maldives to 1.2 billion in India. The economies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213932
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Involving men in reproductive and fertility issues: insights from Punjab
Kamran, Iram; Khan, Mumraiz; Tasneem, Zeba - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This study explored Pakistani (especially Punjabi) couples' dynamics during their decision processes on fertility … project were reanalyzed to assess the impact of FALAH male-directed interventions on fertility intentions and behavior. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213933
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Bangladesh: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance
El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
determinants of reproductive health. While fertility and contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) are evenly distributed, wide gaps in … health; focusing interventions on high-fertility and high maternal mortality ratio (MMR) areas; addressing human resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213934
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Harnessing the Demographic Dividend in Bangladesh
El-Saharty, Sameh; Ahsan, Karar Zunaid; May, John F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
continued pace of declining fertility especially if fertility declines for a period of time below the replacement level of about … 2.1 children per woman. Accelerating the decline in fertility could reduce population growth in absolute numbers by one …-twelfth by the mid-21st century. Declining fertility will hinge on the successful implementation of different health policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213935