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Wealthiest Is Not Always Healthiest: What Explains Differences in Child Mortality in West Africa?

Ickowitz, Amy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Ghana has the lowest under-five mortality rate in West Africa. Understanding why Ghana’s child mortality rate is lower than in neighboring countries may offer useful insights for other developing countries that are trying to improve child health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower...

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Making quality care available for the poor: faith-inspired health facilities in Burkina Faso

Gemignani, Regina; Tsimpo, Clarence; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Based on the results of qualitative fieldwork conducted in 2010 in Burkina Faso, this paper suggests that a key reason for individuals to seek care in faith-inspired health facilities is the fact that the cost of care is lower than in public facilities (the other reason being that faith-inspired...

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How do households choose between health providers? results from qualitative fieldwork in Burkina Faso

Gemignani, Regina; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper provides results from qualitative fieldwork conducted in 2010 in Burkina Faso to understand the factors that lead households to rely on traditional as opposed to modern health providers, and within modern providers, on faith-inspired as opposed to public facilities. While there is an...

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Social effect and female genital mutilation (FGM)

OUEDRAOGO, Salmata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In this article we attempt to identify the impact of social effects on the decision to practice excision on girls, based on the methodology used by Bertrand, Luttmer and Mallainathan (2000). We are particularly interested in social determinants, and make use of the heterogeneity of behaviors...

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Risque et mesures de la pauvreté rurale au Burkina Faso

Nouve, Kofi; Bambio, Yiriyibin; Kabore, Samuel; Wodon, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This article assesses the importance of risk in the measurement of rural poverty in Burkina Faso. The analysis is based on longitudinal data collected as part of monitoring and evaluation activities for the PNGT-2 project on community development in the country. The first part of the study is...

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Options for Income-Enhancing Diversification in Burkina Faso

Chandra, Vandana; Osorio Rodarte, Israel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

One of the objectives of this CEM was to identify the most promising products and conduct competitiveness diagnostic. The products list is summarized in Table 1 below. Competitiveness, in this report, is seen as a combination of productivity and costs, and the second section of the CEM presents...

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Micro and macro indicators of competition: comparison and relation with productivity change

Polder, Michael; Veldhuizen, Erik; Bergen, Dirk van den; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper investigates competition in the Dutch manufacturing sector. We look at various indicators that have been used throughout the literature and relate these to productivity growth. Moreover, where possible, the indicators and productivity growth are calculated at both the firm and...

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Financial development, International Trade and welfare

Blanchard, Michel; Peltrault, Frederic - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Differences between domestic financial systems can lead to international trade. A country with relatively developed or … systems will export traditional commodities. Trade is always welfare improving before the resolution of uncertainty but the … country with the more risk averse financial system and the world as a whole can be worse off with trade after the resolution …

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Energy Consumption, Trade and GDP: A Case Study of South Asian Countries

Shakeel, Muhammad; Iqbal, Mazhar; Majeed, Muhammad Tariq - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

dynamic linkages between energy consumption, trade and GDP. The results show that, in the short run, feedback relationship … energy and GDP holds in the short as well as in the long run. The feedback relationship between trade and energy consumption … suggests that any shortage of energy supply will lessen the trade and this reductions in trade will lessen the benefits of …

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Nexus of trade, investment and poverty: evidence from Pakistan

Amber, Fatima; Muhammad, Shahbaz; Faridul, Islam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

carefully, trade and investment can help promote economic growth and alleviate poverty. The paper empirically examines the … impact of trade and investment on poverty alleviation in Pakistan by employing the Johansen-Juselius (1990) approach to …-à-vis poverty. While investment is a key to promoting economic growth, trade openness can also help by improving business climate …

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