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Does inequality in health impede growth?

Grimm, Michael - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of inequality in health on economic growth in low and middle income countries. The empirical part of the paper uses an original cross-national panel data set covering 62 low and middle income countries over the period 1985 to 2007. I find a substantial and...

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Effects of decentralized health care financing on maternal care in Indonesia

Sparrow, Robert; Bedi, Arjun Singh; Hartwig, Hartwig, R.; … - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2015

We exploit variation in the design of sub-national health care financing initiatives in Indonesian districts to assess the effects of these local schemes on maternal care from 2004 to 2010. The analysis is based on a district pseudo-panel, combining data from a unique survey among District...

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Marginal benefit incidence of public health spending: evidence from Indonesian sub-national data

Sparrow, Robert; Pradhan, Pradhan, M.P.; Kruse, Kruse, I. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009

We examine the marginal effects of decentralized public health spending by incorporating estimates of behavioural responses to changes in public health spending through benefit incidence analysis. The analysis is based on a panel dataset of 207 Indonesian districts over a 4-year period from 2001...

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Marginal benefit incidence of public health spending: evidence from Indonesian sub-national data

Kruse, Ioana; Pradhan, Menno; Sparrow, Robert - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009

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Education policy and frame conflict

Eyre, Eyre, D.S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2011

This research explores frame conflict in the context of education policy. It centers on the public discourse surrounding the retraction of a student assignment policy aimed at socio-economic diversity in the Wake County Public School System in North Carolina, USA. It argues that the controversy...

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Economic growth, employment and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa

Messkoub, Messkoub, M. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2008

This paper provides an assessment of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction in the Arab MENA region …. Considering the high rate of unemployment (especially the youth unemployment) and poverty in most countries in the region … employment and poverty impacts of growth are of particular concern to policy makers. In the short run for employment growth to be …

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Forest management in Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua : reform failures?

Pellegrini, Pellegrini, L. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009

conclude that there is a reform failure matched by a failure to reform. The Poverty Reduction Strategies of the three countries …

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Accountability in formal and informal institutions: a cross country analysis

de Wit, de Wit, J.W.; Akinyoade, Akinyoade, A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2008

The concept and practices of accountability enjoy considerable interest today, not least due to the World Development Report WDR 2004 on service delivery, which formulated the ëtriangle of accountabilityí - specifying relations between the poor, service providers, policy makers and...

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Linking the poor to new modalities in service delivery. Partnership innovations in solid waste management in Bogotá, Colombia

Gomez, Georgina Mercedes; Turcotte, Turcotte, I. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2012

public service provision while aiming to improve the livelihoods of the poor and overcome the institutional nature of poverty …

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Relative poverty in Pakistan : an estimation from the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (1984-85)

Zaidi, Zaidi, M.A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1992

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