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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...

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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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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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Internal Migration, Selection Bias and Human Development: Evidence from Indonesia and Mexico

Deb, Partha; Seck, Papa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

migration on a broad range of variables that include socio economic outcomes such as consumption, nutrition, health status and …

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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...

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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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Urban Agriculture, Price Volatility.Drought ,And Food Security In Developing Countries.

Jatta, Sylvester - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Abstract Urban agriculture may have an important role to play in addressing food insecurity problems, which are bound to become increasingly vital with the secular trends towards the urbanization of poverty and of population in developing countries. Our understanding of the importance, and food...

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Food and Nutrition Scenario of Kenya

Mohajan, Haradhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Government of the country is trying to reduce poverty. The country is developing in food security and nutrition since the last … taken here to discuss the food and nutrition situation of Kenya to build a healthy nation. …

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