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What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review
Kremer, Michael - 2007
The Millennium Development Goals call for reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. This goal was adopted in large part because clean water was seen as critical to fighting diarrheal disease, which kills 2 million children annually. There is...
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The Incentive Effects of Cash Transfers to the Poor
Aizer, Anna - 2020
the Mothers' Pension Program, the first cash transfer program in the US. In the short-run cash transfers reduced …
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Cash Transfers for Child Development : Experimental Evidence from India
Weaver, Jeffrey; Sukhtankar, Sandip; Niehaus, Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
which randomly-selected mothers receive cash transfers for the first two years of their child's life, we examine the … relationship between income and child development in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Treated mothers and children experienced large …
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Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia
Olken, Benjamin A. - 2012
This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives in improving the efficacy of aid programs. Villages in a randomly-chosen one-third of subdistricts received a block grant to improve 12 maternal and child health and education...
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My Policies or Yours : Does OECD Support for Agriculture Increase Poverty in Developing Countries?
McMillan, Margaret - 2005
This paper investigates the impact of rich-country agricultural support on the poor. Using non-parametric analysis we establish that the majority of poor countries are consistently net importers of food products that are heavily supported by OECD governments. Using a cross-country regression...
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The Economics of Fair Trade
Dragusanu, Raluca E. - 2014
Fair Trade is a labeling initiative aimed at improving the lives of the poor in developing countries by offering better terms to producers and helping them to organize. In this survey, we provide a critical overview of the economic theory behind Fair Trade, describing the potential benefits and...
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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987, eligibility for aid from the International Development Association (IDA) has been based partly...
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Making Progress on Foreign Aid
Qian, Nancy - 2014
Foreign aid is one of the most important policy tools that rich countries use for helping poor countries to improve population well-being and facilitate economic and institutional development. The empirical evidence on its benefits is mixed and has generated much controversy. This paper presents...
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema - 2009
with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the … contraceptive properties of nursing. Second, given a preference for having sons, mothers with no or few sons want to conceive again … sons and daughters, having few or no older brothers results in earlier weaning. Third, these gender effects peak as mothers …
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Gender Roles and Medical Progress
Albanesi, Stefania - 2009
effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to work, while the introduction of infant formula reduced mothers …
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