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The reduction of child mortality is one of the most universally accepted Millennium Goals. However, there is a … child mortality is mainly determined by the evolution of macroeconomic environment. The influence of per capita income level … on mortality is frequently underlined. But a given income growth does not have the same effect on child survival if it is …
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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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changes in adult mortality rates. An upsurge of cardiovascular and external cause mortality caused a massive premature loss of … life among working-age men in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. In contrast, cardiovascular mortality has fallen at a … changes and assesses the possible consequences of the changing fertility and mortality patterns. Much remains unknown about …
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This paper aims to assess the impact that the impoverishment process has had on IPD health dynamics and micronutrient …
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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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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 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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