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Child health and the 1988-92 economic crisis in Peru
Paxson, Christina H. - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523073
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Tajikistan - Quality of Child Health Services
World Bank - 2012
of the 2009 World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nation children's Fund (UNICEF) Integrated Management of Childhood …-five children. Two main issues are highlighted by this study. Firstly, the quality of primary health care services provided to … children is lacking in many areas, irrespective of the PHC provider's type of training. Second, is that the family medicine and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550585
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Attaining the Millennium Development Goals in India : How Likely and What Will It Take to Reduce Infant Mortality, Child Malnutrition, Gender Disparities and Hunger-Poverty and to...
World Bank - 2013
Since the launch of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the Millennium Summit in New York in September 2000, the MDGs have become the most widely-accepted yardstick of development efforts by governments, donors and NGOs. The MDGs are a set of numerical and time-bound targets related to...
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Child Health
World Bank - 2012
The largest global equity gap in health, is among children, and concentrated in communicable diseases. This note …, developed by the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Children's Fund - whose aim is to reduce childhood deaths …, illnesses, and disabilities, while improving children's growth, and development. IMCI's three main components are to: improve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554881
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Environmental Health and Child Survival
World Bank - 2012
disease attributed to environmental factors falls on children below five years of age, who account for about 10 percent of the … world's population. Children are especially susceptible to environmental factors that put them at risk of developing illness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012556814
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Integrated coastal zone management of coral reefs : decision support modeling
Ruitenbeek, H. Jack (contributor);  … - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524443
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Mozambique - The Second Roads and Coastal Shipping Project
World Bank - 2012
The project was estimated to cost a total of $814.6 million - the IDA Credit was for the equivalent of $188 million - and it was implemented by the government over the period 1994-2001. The co-financiers included the African Development Bank, the European Union, USAID, Caisse Francaise de...
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Compendium : Coastal Management Practices in West Africa - Existing and Potential Solutions to Control Coastal Erosion, Prevent Flooding and Mitigate Damage to Society
World Bank - 2022
Erosion and flooding are the most visible consequences of coastal zone degradation in West Africa. Man-made and natural processes, aggravated by the effects of climate change, cause erosion and flooding. These threatened densely populated coasts, the nerve center of the region's demographic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254861
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Impacts of Climate Change on Georgia's Coastal Zone : Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Options
World Bank - 2020
The higher-level purpose of this study is to provide information to be used to raise the ambition of Georgia's nationally determined contribution (NDCs) and to consider adaptation targets for the Black Sea coast of Georgia. The study also aims to highlight how supporting a blue economy can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647689
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Economic and Spatial Study of the Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change of Coastal Areas in Senegal
World Bank - 2014
The African coastal countries are facing several environmental and socio-economic challenges, such as unplanned urban and economic development, fueled by a growing rural exodus; non-functional or non-existent public infrastructures to handle the demographic growth along the coastline; air, water...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560980