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The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical ev
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This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young … Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in … dimensions like the timing of health shocks and pathways through which they affect human capital investment, differential effects …
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The World Bank.s health sector projects in Timor-Leste.the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and the … Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project.have been among the few successful operations it has funded in …
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This paper looks at the prospects of a demographic dividend in Africa in the near future. While acknowledging that the fertility declines which change population age structures and thus dependency ratios have been slow to begin and often seem to have stal
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The study examines the relationship between climatic factors and reported malaria cases using data from 12 districts in Uganda over the period 2000-2011. A panel dataset comprising temperature, temperature standard deviation; minimum humidity; maximum hum
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The Millennium Development Goals have become the frame of reference for most of the development community: the standard by which performance will ultimately be judged. Given their importance, considerable attention has been paid as to whether these goals will be met or not. The overwhelming...
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