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Financial and Fiscal Instruments for Catastrophe Risk Management : Addressing Losses from Flood Hazards in Central Europe, Volume 2. Statistical Annex
World Bank - 2013
This report addresses the large flood exposures of Central Europe and proposes efficient financial and risk transfer mechanisms to mitigate fiscal losses from natural catastrophes.. The report is primarily addressed to the governments of the region which should build into their fiscal planning,...
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A curse of comparison? : Evidence on reference groups for relative income concerns
Kuegler, Alice - 2009
"This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a reference point for new sample data from Venezuela....
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Turkey - Performance Based Contracting Scheme in Family Medicine : Design and Achievements
World Bank - 2014
overall family medicine program. It describes and assesses Turkey's performance based payment scheme in family medicine with … feasible. Three focus groups were conducted with Family Medicine Practice (FMP) doctors, FMP health personnel and division …
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Uruguay : Family Agriculture Development
World Bank - 2013
of the present report are: a) to analyze the main characteristics of family agriculture as well as its development … measures aimed at reducing vulnerabilities and increasing development opportunities for family producers; and d) contribute to … presenting a set of policy recommendations and measures to support an economic and environmentally sustainable family agriculture …
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World Development Report 2007 Development and the Next Generation
eSocialSciences; World Bank - 2008
The Report examines five pivotal phases of life that can help unleash the development of young people’s potential with the right government policies: learning, working, staying healthy, forming families, and exercising citizenship. Within each of these transitions, governments need not...
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The Egyptian fertility survey, 1980
1983
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Experiments in family planning : lessons from the developing world
Cuca, Roberto; Pierce, Catherine S. - 1977
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Population growth and policies in sub-Saharan Africa
1986 - 2. print
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394107
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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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