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This paper analyzes the welfare and distributional impacts of increasing taxes on cigarettes in Georgia. Increasing taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates, increasing tobacco taxes could save more than GEL 3.6 billion and 53 thousand lives over a...
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mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health services), concentrating on the countries that increased their health …, Rwanda, and Malawi, budget support did have a positive effect on health spending and, except for Rwanda, neonatal mortality …
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differences in population age structure. In this paper, COVID-19 mortality rates are calculated for each age group by dividing the … number of COVID-19 deaths by the underlying population. The resulting age-mortality curves are flatter in countries with … lower incomes. In HICs, the COVID-19 mortality rate for those ages 70-79 is 12.6 times the rate for those ages 50-59. In …
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on the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Using data from …-income countries from 1996 through 2015. Our results show that the effects of total foreign aid on maternal mortality are limited, but … reductions in maternal mortality. Given these targeted effects, it is important to channel more donor assistance to the promotion …
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reduction that can be largely attributed to the substantial progress made in reducing child mortality worldwide. We also observe …
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moments estimator to examine the effect of health aid and education aid on maternal mortality and primary school completion …
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Monitoring health is key for identifying priorities in public health planning and improving healthcare services. Life expectancy has conventionally been regarded as a valuable indicator to compare the health status of different populations. However, this measure is simply the mean of the...
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