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The 2019 update of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators Database : an overview
Wagstaff, Adam; Eozenou, Patrick; Neelsen, Sven; Smitz, Marc - 2019
This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators database. On the financial protection side, the changes include an increase in the number of indicators from five to 14; revisions to several previous data points,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051874
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Making secure land tenure count for Global Development Goals and national policy : evidence from Zambia
Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Deininger, Klaus W.; Hilhorst, Dorothea - 2019
Adding a module designed to measure land tenure-related Sustainable Development Goals indicators to the 2018 round of Zambia's labor force survey shows low transferability and high levels of tenure insecurity. Having a title is associated with greater transferability and reduced insecurity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058956
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Multi-hazard groundwater risks to the drinking water supply in Bangladesh : challenges to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Shamsudduha, Mohammad; Joseph, George; Haque, Sabrina S.; … - 2019
variables, including access to drinking and irrigation water supplies and social vulnerability (that is, poverty), are overlaid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059008
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Out-of-pocket expenditures on health : a global stocktake
Wagstaff, Adam; Eozenou, Patrick; Smitz, Marc - 2019
among the rich when expenditures are assessed relative to consumption. At the extreme poverty line of USD 1.90-a-day, most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008373
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Understanding the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Vorisek, Dana; Yu, Shu - 2020
This paper presents a review of studies that estimate the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Although the Sustainable Development Goals provide useful benchmarks for fiscal authorities and donors, typical cross-country costing exercises can be misleading, for a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229769
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Tracking the sustainable development goals : emerging measurement challenges and further reflections
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Serajuddin, Umar - 2019
The Sustainable Development Goals recently adopted by the United Nations represent an important step to identify shared global goals for development over the next two decades. Yet, the stated goals are not as straightforward and easy to interpret as they appear on the surface. Review of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022362
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Evolution of poor food access over the course of the conflict in the Republic of Yemen
Tandon, Sharad; Vishwanath, Tara - 2019
The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There has been an increase in violence, a disruption in supply chains due to a tightening of the ports, and a decline in the general economic climate that has left a large share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008383
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Food prices, access to markets and child undernutrition in Ethiopia
Brenton, Paul; Nyawo, Mike - 2019
This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings … to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022286
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An assessment of water, sanitation and hygiene access in Bangladesh’s community health clinics
Joseph, George; Alam, Bushra Binte; Shrestha, Anne; … - 2019
when considering the prevalence of poverty and chronic undernutrition at the upazilla level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059014
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Feeding five billion Asians : a socioeconomic perspective
Cuesta, José - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009689929