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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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The Effectiveness of Competition Policy: An Econometric Assessment in Developed and Developing Countries
Samà, Danilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The ultimate objective of the present paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of competition policy in developed and developing countries. Although its importance is continuously increasing, the effectiveness of competition policy still seems to lack the attention that it would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109090
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Government Spending on Education and Closing the Gender Gap : The Case of Developing Economies
Emara, Noha; Hegazy, Azza - 2021
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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Estimating nutrition-income elasticities in sub-Saharan African:Implication on health
Ogundari, Kolawole; Ito, Shoichi; Okoruwa, Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The study estimates calories, proteins and fats-income elasticities in sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Annual time series data for 43 countries covering 1975-2009 that yields a balanced panel was employed for the analysis. The nutrient-income elasticities are estimated based on the aggregate Engel...
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Dietary quality and tree cover in Africa
Ickowitz, Amy; Powell, Bronwen; Salim, Mohammad; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The relationship between forests and human nutrition is not yet well understood. A better understanding of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258726
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Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums
Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220685
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Intrahousehold and interhousehold child nutrition inequality in Malawi
Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
health outcomes for household members. This paper investigates whether child nutrition inequalities are attributable to … method to estimate the between and within contributions of both the explained and unexplained variances of child nutrition …. Child nutrition is measured using height-for-age z-scores, and weight-for-height z-scores. The empirical analysis uses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322624
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Child Health and the Income Gradient: Evidence from Australia
Khanam, Rasheda; Nghiem, Hong Son; Connelly, Luke B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature but the precise mechanisms via which income generates better health and whether the income gradient is increasing in child age are not well understood. This paper presents new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837071
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The Effects of the War in Iraq on Nutrition and Health: An Analysis Using Anthropometric Outcomes of Children
Guerrero Serdan, Gabriela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
paper also addresses the channels through which the conflict has affected health and nutrition. The results have not only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031398
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Empirical approach of absolute poverty in Greece: the needs for housing, nutrition, clothing, footwear, transport
Labrinidis, George; Maniatis, Thanasis; Bassiakos, Yannis; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Η έρευνα αυτή αποτελεί μια αντικειμενική αποτύπωση της σύγχρονης κοινωνικής πραγματικότητας αλλά και ένα χρήσιμο εργαλείο για τους σύγχρονους και μελλοντικούς...
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