trends in national income, poverty and public expenditure. Debt Service: An Emerging Problem looks at the growth of external … Commonwealth of Independent States. It contains six articles: Economic Growth, Poverty and Long-Term Disadvantage examines recent …

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior …. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of … health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting …

% of GDP, re-establishes the trend that monetary poverty would have followed in the absence of a crisis and even leads to a … modern health care services. A universal (non-targeted) variant of this transfer policy for 0-5 year-olds has similar results …

range of topics including income and poverty, fertility, infant and adult mortality, enrolment in education and care of …

chapters examine the record of the decade in four key areas affecting human welfare: income inequality and child poverty …, health, education, and child protection. An introductory chapter analyses key economic and demographic trends. In each case …

raising families in a new socio-economic climate. The Report looks at their health, their education, their entry into the …

lives of their nations. It examines the special problems of young people in the area of health and in the labour market. It …

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at … one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical … over time. A one percent increase in birth weight increase child's noncognitive skills by 0.34 percent and child's health …