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. …

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 …

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 …

Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing … health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To … modes. Overall, it can be concluded that the health care reforms have not reduced equity in health care financing neither if …

Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household … substitution for lower quality food, increasing the intensity of work, withdrawing children from school – especially girls – and … engaging children in child labour, can lock households in a low-income equilibrium or poverty trap. Provided that covariate …

evidence consistent with the idea that reticent managers lie. First, it shows that reticent managers in Nigeria report that … is, reticent managers in Nigeria report paying higher wages but they are not doing so. …

This study tests for the existence of currency substitution and attempts to gauge its magnitude in Nigeria. The … Nigeria and the ratio of deposits denominated in foreign currency in the domestic banking system to deposits denominated in … banking system in Nigeria. A major factor driving this process was exchange rate volatility especially real parallel market …