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The prospects for an imminent demographic dividend in Africa: The case for cautious optimism

Basu, Alaka M.; Basu, Kaushik - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

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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Donor coordination for effective government policies? Implementation of the new aid effectiveness agenda in health and education in Zambia

Leiderer, Stefan - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence …

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The World Bank.s health projects in Timor-Leste: The political economy of effective aid

Rosser, Andrew; Bremner, Sharna - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

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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Changes in climatic factors and malaria in Uganda

Yawe, Bruno Lule - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

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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Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision in Zambia: Further evidence of a subnational .diversity dividend.

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Leiderer, Stefan; Nino-Zarazua, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

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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Health Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India

Dhanaraj, Sowmya - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2015

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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Aid Effectiveness in the Health Sector

Acharya, Arnab; Alvarez, Melisa Mart.nez - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

health sector. It summarizes the history of aid and outlines the methodological challenges encountered when assessing its …

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Every drop counts: Assessing aid for water and sanitation

Anand, P.B. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

Water and sanitation sectors have been the .natural. subjects of aid for several decades. However, these sectors also were among those most affected by changes in aid approaches and tools. The aim of this paper is to capture some of the complexity in asse

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Measuring government performance in public opinion surveys in Africa: Towards experiments?

Bratton, Michael - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

precision of results generated by public opinion surveys. Survey research on basic health and education services sub …

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Biotechnology and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

Graff, Gregory; Roland-Holst, David; Zilberman, David - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005

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