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The Production, Distribution, and Performance of Physicians, Nurses, and Midwives in Indonesia: An Update

Anderson, Ian; Meliala, Andreasta; Marzoeki, Puti; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

improving the quality assurance system of health professional education through school accreditation and graduate certification …

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Month of Birth and Children's Health in India

Lokshin, Lokshin , Michael; Radyakin, Sergiy - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon months have lower anthropometric scores compared with...

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Can Maquila Booms Reduce Poverty? Evidence from Honduras

E. de Hoyos, de Hoyos, Rafael E.; Bussolo, Maurizio; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila...

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Can the Introduction of a Minimum Wage in FYR Macedonia Decrease the Gender Wage Gap?

F. Angel-Urdinola, Diego - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

) returns to education, which measures the extent to which the gender gap is driven by differences by gender in returns to … education. Second, the paper presents simple set of simulations that indicate that the introduction of a minimum wage in …

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The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) "Middle Class"

Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line of developing countries, but are still poor by US standards. The "Western middle class" is defined as those who are not poor by US standards. Although barely 80 million people...

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Achieving MDGs 4&5: Bolivia's Progress on Maternal and Child Health

Cortez, Rafael; Lavadenz, Fernando; Saadat, Seemeen; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Bolivia is a lower-middle income country, but one of the poorest in South America, with a per capita GNI of US$ 5,750 in 2013 and an average GNI growth rate of 4.4 percent during the last ten years. Nearly 36 percent of its population of 10.6 million (2013) are aged 0 to 14 years and one third...

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Achieving MDGs 4&5: Egypt's Progress on Maternal and Child Health

Sarker, Intissar; Saadat, Seemeen; Cortez, Rafael; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Egypt is a lower-middle-income country with a GNI per capita (PPP) of US$ 5,654 in 2012. Since the Arab Spring, Egypt?s economic growth has slowed to 0.6 percent in 2012. Half of Egypt?s 82.54 million people live in rural areas. Poverty is concentrated in Upper Egypt (the southern region). As of...

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Education attainment in the Middle East and North Africa : success at a cost

Iqbal, Farrukh; Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

This paper reviews the experience of the Middle East and North Africa region in education attainment over the past four … comparators that had roughly the same education stocks in 1970; (c) collectively, the region achieved a greater percentage … increase in education than other regions; (d) the region's better performance was in part because of higher rates of public …

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Health in All Policies as a Strategic Policy Response to NCDs

Lin, Vivian; Jones, Catherine; Wang, Shiyong; Barbd, Enis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

outcomes desired by other sectors, such as education, environment, welfare, agriculture, and transportation. HiAP can be …

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Is foreign aid fungible ? evidence from the education and health sectors

Van de Sijpe, Nicolas - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

aid that is provided for education and health purposes to recipient public spending in these sectors. In addition, aid … education and health aid, leads to, at most, a small displacement of recipient public expenditures. …

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