Similar Search Results

Costed Plan for Scaling Up Nutrition: Nigeria

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2014

This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261537

Alcohol

World Bank - 2012

Alcohol abuse is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Alcohol abuse is responsible for 4 percent of global deaths and disability, nearly as much as tobacco and five times the burden of illicit drugs (WHO). In developing countries with low mortality, alcohol is the leading...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554816

The Egyptian fertility survey, 1980

1983

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000561900

Experiments in family planning : lessons from the developing world

Cuca, Roberto; Pierce, Catherine S. - 1977

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000661947

Population growth and policies in sub-Saharan Africa

1986 - 2. print

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000706806

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394107

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394127

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394140

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394177

International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility

Beine, Michel - 2009

"This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. It provides provide a rigorous test of the diffusion on of fertility …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394219