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Maternal health remains one of the top priorities of the Government of Indonesia (GoI) and the Ministry of Health (MoH) because reductions in maternal mortality have been slows. The current Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) for Indonesia is 228 but with existing programs and interventions the...
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children's human capital. Angola, a country where a third of the population lives in poverty and economic output is heavily …
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Although Lao PDR has made notable progress in improving maternal and child health (MCH), attainment of the Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5) still remains a challenge. This is largely due to the barriers imposed by financial restrictions. In order to address these financial barriers, the...
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Despite being on-track on the child- and maternal-health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Lao PDR continues to have some of the worst maternal and child health (MCH) and nutrition outcome indicators, both globally as well as in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. This report presents...
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mothers and children in crises and emergencies. Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the most vulnerable regions in the … intensified nutritional needs, most notably pregnant and lactating mothers as well as children less than two years of age. Its … guidance on how to safeguard the nutritional status of mothers and children during times of stability, crisis, and emergency …
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that the federal government programs in women and children's health could be expanded by prioritizing on failed expenditure …
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, and parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children … for older than younger children, and there is greater dispersion in scores among older children. They find that household … socioeconomic characteristics, in particular wealth and parental education, are "protective"-children from wealthier households with …
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' education had no environmental impact on children's schooling. Interestingly, mothers' education matters more for girls, while …"Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature …, more nurture, or both? De Walque uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children living …
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be realized from investing in pre-primary education ranging from promoting children s school readiness to equalizing …
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Providing at least basic education to all children especially those coming from poor or disadvantaged families is an … the measures that will secure access to quality education for all children above all to those who are under higher risk of … basic children's right- access to education; chapter five and six sets paths for making chosen policy options sustainable …
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