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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 … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality …
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and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have …
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, child mortality and others factors that affect these outcomes. To improve data reporting, data collection needs to be …
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There is a general consensus that The Gambia's civil service has a number of key capacity weaknesses. Pay is too low to hire, motivate and retain key technical and professional staffs. Staffs are not managed to achieve results, neither rewarded for good performance nor sanctioned for poor...
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Brazil's pension system takes up an oversized proportion of its social protection spending. It comprises of Regime … stands at about 10 percent of RGPS coverage, its spending amounts to almost half of RGPS pension outlays. This paper attempts … to present an integrated view of RPPS pension schemes, their influence on subnational budgets, and their interaction with …
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The question of how best to compensate veterans in the aftermath of war is one that is relevant to many developing countries. Civil wars and independence struggles often affect the poorest regions of the world, and leave an enormous financial burden, including benefits to former fighters and...
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The book focuses on the future prosperity of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which together with other companion volumes-on trade and investment, governance, and gender-contributes to ongoing debates, and dialogues about development in the region, and the development challenges...
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This policy note provides a view of the main challenges facing Ghana youth and proposes policy options to address them. The note: (i) highlights youth key characteristics from the perspective of their skills and jobs and the constraints they face, (ii) describes the institutional set up and...
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Ireland has consistently supported workforce development (WfD) as a key element of economic development. This study has been commissioned by the World Bank to test a new instrument, within its Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER)-WfD project, which provides an opportunity to...
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