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Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child …
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. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and …
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. In order to meet her health Millennium Development Goals by 2015, Malawi needs to put good governance, agricultural … performance and increases in health expenditure at the heart of development policies. …
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The study focuses on the HIV/AIDS in Khartoum state during the period (2003-2007). The main objectives are to study the situation of HIV/AIDS in Khartoum state through a sample of 1439 of volunteers for the three selected blood testing and counseling centers in Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum...
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More than half of the HIV/AIDS-infected population today are women. We study a dynamic model of (in)fidelity, which explains the HIV/AIDS gender gap by the configuration of sexual networks. Each individual desires sexual relationships with opposite sex individuals. Two Markov matching processes...
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This essay analyzes the long-run economic effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya, with emphasis on fertility, education and child … incidence of child labor doubles for some periods. The level of fertility falls in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak, but …
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This paper analyses how various actors have used potent urban symbols to assert their vision of a modern, globalized Malay identity in the construction of the recently founded knowledge city of Cyberjaya, part of the flagship Multimedia Super Corridor project. As the state controls both the land...
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location by creating knowledge clusters and knowledge hubs, due to sharing of tacit knowledge and research and development … outputs. Designing epistemic landscapes of knowledge clusters and hubs is, therefore, proposed as a viable development policy. …
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"Evidence-based medicine” approaches began to be formalized in the early 1990s to promote a conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in decision-making on care for individual patients. These approaches were subsequently extended to other spheres of public decision...
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This paper addresses the question how knowledge is used to benefit the economic development of Singapore and Malaysia …
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