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Fertility and early-life mortality: Evidence from smallpox vaccination in Sweden
Ager, Philipp; Worm Hansen, Casper; Sandholt Jensen, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We examine how the introduction of smallpox vaccination affected early-life mortality and fertility in Sweden during the first half of the 19th century. We demonstrate that parishes in counties with higher levels of smallpox mortality prior to the introduction of vaccination experienced a...
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Partnerships for Women's Health - Striving for Best Practice within the UN Global Compact / United Nations University Research Brief 1/2009 (www.unu.edu)
Timmermann, Martina; Kruesmann, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental...
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FACTORS AFFECTING THE ENROLLMENT AND THE RETENTION OF STUDENTS AT PRIMARY EDUCATION IN ANDHRA PRADESH – A VILLAGE LEVEL STUDY
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
There is an imperative need to change the education pattern to achieve universal primary education in India. Even after … 60 years of Independence, India faces obstacles in providing Education For All. This study was conducted in a primary … school of Errabelly village of Karimnager district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The study revealed that children dropped out of …
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Analysis of Gender Disparity in Meghalaya by Various Types of Composite Indices
Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
. In India, women have little social or economic independence. They are treated inequitably at home as much as at the … East India, presents a case different than the rest of the country at large (except Kerala and some other pockets). A very …-economic sphere. The investigation is based on Census of India-2001 data. Two sets of nine variables that measure socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621444
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Financing Human Development in India: Strategies and Options
Aziz, Ghazala - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
India is ranked fairly high amongst the countries in terms of out of pocket expenditure by its citizens on health and … education. India is ranked 134th on the Human Development Index (2011 ranking). Public expenditure on human development is given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201786
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Contraceptive supply and fertility outcomes: evidence from Ghana
Jones, Kelly M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Total fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa are nearly double that of any other region in the world. Evidence is mixed on whether providing contraceptives has an impact on fertility. I exploit exogenous, intermittent reductions in contraceptive supply in Ghana, resulting from cuts in U.S....
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Child-rights & child development in India - a socio-economic analysis under regional perspective
Roy, Chandan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Every human being below the age of eighteen years is known as ‘child’ according to the universally accepted definition of United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The need for special safeguard for the child had been stated in the Geneva Declaration, 1924. It was also...
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Demokratie , öffentliche Güter und Europa
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The rise of the extreme poles in the European political Spectrum, corresponds currently with a clear call for help by the site of simple People, combined with the desire for a serious confrontation with the tragic impasse reproduced by the extreme Problems of the everyday live . In this case,...
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The other side of the coin: The privatization phenomenon and realization of public welfare in a Single European Health Care System? A sketch from the perspective of the economic th...
Janoska, Wilfried - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The commonwealth cannot be equated with the state nor can the common good of society be sustained by government action alone. Rather, the activities of all members of society are crucial importance. Such private sector activities also define the development of national healthcare markets in the...
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Effects of interactions among social capital, income, and learning from experiences of natural disasters: A case study from Japan
yamamura, eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper explores how and the extent to which social capital has an effect on the damage resulting from natural disasters. It also examines whether the experience of a natural disaster affects individual and collective protection against future disasters. There are three major findings. (1)...
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