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1993

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Governance in Albania : A Way Forward for Competitiveness, Growth, and European Integration

World Bank - 2013

Since its emergence from a turbulent post-communist transition, Albania has achieved remarkable progress in economic and social development. Governance improvements, especially in the effectiveness of public administration, have been instrumental to the country's impressive economic performance...

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Promoting an Integral Social Protection System

World Bank - 2014

This note reviews the challenges in Mexico s social protection system and possible options to achieve an integral and effective system that is more than the sum of its parts. Mexico s social protection system includes contributory social security schemes, social assistance programs, and labor...

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Population growth and policies in sub-Saharan Africa

1986 - 2. print

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Experiments in family planning : lessons from the developing world

Cuca, Roberto; Pierce, Catherine S. - 1977

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The Egyptian fertility survey, 1980

1983

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Month of birth and children's health in India

Lokshin, Michael - 2009

"The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon months have lower anthropometric scores compared with...

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Age at first child : does education delay fertility timing? the case of Kenya

Ferre, Celine - 2009

mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college … Health Surveys of 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2003 to uncover the impact of staying one more year in school on teenage fertility …. To get around the endogeneity issue between schooling and fertility preferences, the analysis uses the 1985 Kenyan …

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Is there an incipient turnaround in Asia's "missing girls" phenomenon ?

Das Gupta, Monica - 2009

"The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much attention amongst researchers and policy-makers. An encouraging trend was suggested by the case of South Korea, where child sex ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked in the...

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Fertility response to natural disasters : the case of three high mortality earthquakes

Finlay, Jocelyn E. - 2009

addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …. The results in this study are consistent with those of other studies that also find a positive fertility response …

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