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Even without a comprehensive household survey with detailed consumption and income data, it is still often feasible to conduct useful empirical work on gender and intra-household allocations. This paper documents the extent to which income generation affects decision making within households in...
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(as proxied through spending for food, education, health, and children’s clothing). The impact is not negligible and it is … statistically significant, suggesting long-term benefits through children from efforts to increase female labor income. …
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Faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) commonly have as their stated mission a desire to provide quality health services to … services more affordable. However, it suggests that in current African health contexts, FIIs may no longer be that different …
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Governments aiming to improve the education and health status of their populations can increase the level of public … use stochastic production frontier estimation methods to compare the impact of the level of public spending on education … and health outcomes on the one hand, and the efficiency in spending on the other hand, using life expectancy and net …
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basic services would help in improving outcomes in the south, with a focus on health and education. Finally, we discuss the … existing evidence on the impact that programs such as the Education, Health, and Nutrition Program (Programa de Educación …
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The issue of whether faith-inspired providers are able to reach the poor depends in part on the cost of the health … assess to what extent the cost of healthcare is a major reason for not being satisfied with health services and whether …
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predict a range of health-related behaviors and outcomes. What can be said about patient satisfaction with faith … satisfaction of patients with FII-health services in Africa today. Second, we present new evidence from household surveys in six …
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The Christian Health Association of Ghana is the largest federation of faith-inspired provider of health services in … data from the Ministry of Health. Using poverty mapping techniques and simple regression analysis, this paper aims to …
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provided by faith-inspired health care providers in Ghana: how satisfied are patients with the services received?; and why are …
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