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This essay analyzes the long-run economic effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya, with emphasis on fertility, education and child … future generations is weakened, as children are left orphaned and surviving adults are correspondingly burdened. As a … consequence, per capita income decreases and communities can less afford to raise and educate children as they did before the …
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low level of education for their children, an increase in child survival, ceteris paribus, renders quantity more … attractive than quality because it decreases the net cost of having children. Our results are in line with empirical evidence …
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affect access to health, to education and to economic opportunities. The emphasis is placed on South Mediterranean countries …. The results attained and the evidence mobilized consistently show the interdependencies of health, education and poverty … and the potential gains that can be transversally achieved with the promotion of the roles of women and children. …
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cohorts, I analyze a possible causal effect of the war on nutritional outcomes of children. I use two empirical strategies …, leading to very similar results. Estimates indicate that children born in areas affected by high levels of violence are 0.8 cm … shorter than children born in low violence provinces. These results are robust to several specifications. Furthermore, the …
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link between children's health at birth, mother's health during pregnancy, and children's height in the context of negative … differences are small. Finally, a robust finding in the health literature is that shorter children perform worse in schools, in …The exposure to violence in utero and early in life has adverse impacts on children's age-adjusted height (z …
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lacks fertility control and management framework. This forms the rationale for this study to access the trend of factors … Nigeria) and developed nations (Germany and United States). The trend analysis revealed that fertility rate, crude death rate …
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first and second leading causes of death and morbidity among young children in developing countries. The fact that a large … proportion of child deaths are caused by these diseases is symptomatic of dysfunctional policy strategies and health systems in … tested in a developing country context, and which focus on children as the primary target population. Overall, we find that …
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Human Resources in Health is becoming important in these days. The Human Resources is an important area to be addressed … for better healthcare delivery. Health is a sector which depends much on the human resources compared to other sectors …. The human resources is the base for carrying out the services in health. The human resources in health includes …
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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of the most challenging goals for most developing economies. Using Panel Least Square with Regional Dummies (LSDV) for a sample of Developing countries over the period 1990 to 2014,...
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A number of recent studies have been concerned with the determinants of either housing cost differentials or overall living cost differentials among SMSAs. Given the obvious significance of such differentials, the purpose of this research note is to develop a geographically comparable...
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