The role of innovations in improving government productivity and the effectiveness of services has previously been … administrative innovations in central government are diverse, but most involve improving performance management, introducing new IT … projects or web services, as well as some physical technology changes. Many recent projects focus on joining up government and …

model of the accidental bequest with endogenous fertility, we analyze the effects of a decrease in the old-age mortality …

This article examines the links that have recently been studied between poverty, high fertility and undernourishment … countries. An account is offered of a number of pathways involving positive feed-backs that create poverty traps, into which …

. Fertility appears to have remained stable despite, rather than because of, government actions. …For nearly three decades, the total fertility rate in England and Wales has remained high relative to other European … countries, and stable at about 1.7 births per woman. In this chapter, we examine trends in both period and cohort fertility …

There has been a significant decline in fertility in many parts of India since the early 1980s. This paper reexamines … the determinants of fertility levels and fertility decline, using panel data on Indian districts for 1981 and 1991. We … find that women's education is the most important factor explaining fertility differences across the country and over time …

The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain … is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i … hours) postpone first and second birth in any cohort, even accounting for any potential endogeneity between fertility and …

between union instability and fertility in Brazil which has been long understudied. Using the example of Brazil it … fertility in Brazil using multiprocess event history analysis techniques as developed by Lillard (1993). This type of … countries mainly due to the lack of data. The paper will demonstrate the positive effect of union instability on fertility. …

-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …, although the reduction in child poverty in the US has been less, and some families appear to have been left behind. Expenditure …

significant correlation and regression coefficients which suggest a link between inflation and inequality, while poverty appears …