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first and second leading causes of death and morbidity among young children in developing countries. The fact that a large …
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This paper attempts to measure the extent of inequality within households and its contribution to overall levels of inequality in child well-being. The paper analyses the distribution of resources (outcomes) between girls and boys for four indicators: nutrition, birth registration, school...
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This paper focuses on gender aspects upon children?s food security. Using data from the 1995/1996 Nepal Living … Standards Survey, this study attempts to find evidence to whether children are heavier for their age, taller for their age or …?s intra-family status and children?s food security was analyzed with a linear model, where on the left hand side are children …
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This study examines the role of women's intra-household status relative to men in children's food security in Pakistan … women's intra-household status and children's food security. …
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The reduction of child mortality is one of the most universally accepted Millennium Goals. However, there is a significant debate on the means of reaching it and its realism with regard to the situation in most of the least developed countries. The recommendations made for the achievement of...
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two key channels of transmission, namely education and trade. Thirty-six sub-Saharan African countries during the period …
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This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education …
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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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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries …
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This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on chil
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