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Costed Plan for Scaling Up Nutrition: Nigeria
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2014
-specific interventions, but also exploring costs for a selected number of nutrition-sensitive interventions implemented outside of the health … health, social protection, education, and agriculture sectors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261537
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Orphanhood and the living arrangements of children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2009
health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394183
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Dying Too Young : Addressing Premature Mortality and Ill Health Due to Non-Communicable Diseases and Injuries in the Russian Federation
World Bank - 2012
The poor health status of Russia's economically active adult population-its human capital-is imperiling sustainable … economic and social development. What factors contribute to the excessive mortality, ill health, and disability in Russia … projects the health and economic gains that could result from such a program. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553568
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Valuing mortality and morbidity in the context of disaster risks
L. Cropper, Maureen - 2009
"Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of such projects, and an important input into decision making. These analyses, however, often fail to monetize the benefits of reduced death and injury. The authors review the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394126
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The demographic and socio-economic distribution of excess mortality during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda
Walque, Damien de - 2009
population. Data collected by the 2000 Demographic and Health Survey indicate that although there were more deaths across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394144
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Fertility response to natural disasters : the case of three high mortality earthquakes
Finlay, Jocelyn E. - 2009
"The event of a natural disaster, and being directly affected by it, brings a large shock to life-cycle outcomes. In addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility response may be induced as children can be used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394177
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Disease and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jamison, Dean T. (contributor) - 2006 - 2nd ed
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522331
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On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
Ravallion, Martin - 2005
"Recent literature and new data help determine plausible bounds to some key demographic differences between the poor and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522620
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The long-term legacy of the Khmer Rouge period in Cambodia
Walque, Damien de - 2004
Demographic and Health Survey in 2000, he shows that excess mortality was extremely high and heavily concentrated during 1974 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522889
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Labor effects of adult mortality in Tanzanian households
Beegle, Kathleen - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523373