performance of democracy is rather independent of the circumstances. However, democracy leads to more redistribution in favor of … health provision in more unequal societies. "--World Bank web site …

of the 2009 World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nation children's Fund (UNICEF) Integrated Management of Childhood …

This report builds on the World Bank's earlier report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in India (2004 report … review of recent trends with infant and child mortality in the state. Chapter 4 introduces a framework for assessing the … multitude of factors which have a bearing on infant and child mortality, dividing them into four groups: the individual woman …

-poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education and gender equality, reducing infant and child mortality by two …-thirds and maternal mortality by three quarters, reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases, and halving …

, developed by the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Children's Fund - whose aim is to reduce childhood deaths …

Maternal and infant mortality remains very high in Mali, despite the technical, organizational and financial efforts … this respect: infant mortality, which was 108 (EDS I, 1982-1987), reached 123 (EDS II, 1996) to freeze at 113 (EDS III …, 2001); maternal mortality rose from 577 deaths out of 100.000 births (EDS II, 1996) to 582 (EDS III, 2001). The retraining …