This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

affect access to health, to education and to economic opportunities. The emphasis is placed on South Mediterranean countries …. The results attained and the evidence mobilized consistently show the interdependencies of health, education and poverty … and the potential gains that can be transversally achieved with the promotion of the roles of women and children. …

cohorts, I analyze a possible causal effect of the war on nutritional outcomes of children. I use two empirical strategies …, leading to very similar results. Estimates indicate that children born in areas affected by high levels of violence are 0.8 cm … shorter than children born in low violence provinces. These results are robust to several specifications. Furthermore, the …

link between children's health at birth, mother's health during pregnancy, and children's height in the context of negative … differences are small. Finally, a robust finding in the health literature is that shorter children perform worse in schools, in …The exposure to violence in utero and early in life has adverse impacts on children's age-adjusted height (z …

This paper studies the integration of rice markets in the mid-west and far-west districts of Nepal. The data were drawn … mainly from the World Food Programme (WFP) database on Nepal. Results indicate that the rice markets of the hinterland are … of Nepal. Moreover, the poor road infrastructure determines the price differentials. Poor infrastructure impedes price …

Climate change influences crop yield vis-à-vis crop production to a greater extent in countries like Nepal where … variables on yield of major food-crops in Nepal, namely rice, wheat, maize, millet, barley and potato based on regression model … period. Climate variables show some influences on the yield of these major food-crops in Nepal. Increase in summer rain and …

Lanka and Nepal. All the variables are found to be integrated of the same order in the case of Pakistan, India and Nepal …

This paper applies Ricardian approach to measure the effect of climate change on crop production in Nepal using cross …-section data of Nepal Living Standard Survey 2003/04 and climate data from Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Nepal. The … all climatic zones of Nepal. Net farm revenue is regressed on climate and socio-economic variables. The findings show that …

among South Asian countries with particular reference to Nepal. In this regard this study makes a comparative assessment of … also explores the impact of the sensitive list maintained by India, under SAFTA, on the rise in exports from Nepal to India … scenario. However, Nepal also turns out to be important gainer as her exports to the South Asian region as whole increase by …