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The major macroeconomic changes occurred in the last years at global level represent real challenges for contemporary governments which had to rethink their public policies for getting a real impact on citizens’ behaviour. In this paper, we explore the instruments promoted by social marketing,...
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The paper aims to identify the role of Universities in fostering public policies, through the promotion of social responsibility, and the implementation of social marketing initiatives. This innovative approach is particularly interesting since the literature does not cover, until now, the...
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The volume contains the papers presented during the 9th International Congress of the International Association on Public and Nonprofit Marketing (IAPNM) entitled "Regulation and Best Practices in Public and Nonprofit Marketing", organised by the Faculty of Public Administratiom of National...
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health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … implementation of national health policies, or more favorable geography. The paper uses micro level data for children under five to …’Ivoire, and Togo. A Cox proportional hazards model is used to test which of the three ‘contenders’ – health policy, wealth, or …
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, including mother’s age and birth order, and also factors related to health service provision such as tetanus injection and use … other factors such as maternal education and knowledge of health practices (ORS) and access to safe water. The data also …
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in empirical research on efficiency in primary health care. We exploit information retrieved from a newly constructed … (PCCs) in 2006. We provide evidence that neglecting the issue of properly accounting for the quality of health services can …
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General polygyny -- near universal marriage and polygyny -- is common in Africa. But why would men marry n wives for 1/n:th of the time instead of monogamously? Downsides include prolonged bachelorhood and a high degree of step-parenting. We point to the African slave trade which...
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Three profound changes - the mortality, fertility and contraception transitions - characterized the Victorian era in England. Economists, following Becker (1960), focus on the first two and underplay the third by assuming couples can achieve their fertility target at no cost. The historical...
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data from Demographic and Health Surveys in rural Mali, where polygyny rates among married women are close to 50 per cent …
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This paper analyzes China’s and Vietnam’s performance in reducing under-five child mortality in a comparative perspective. Under the market socialist model, both countries achieved very high rates of GDP growth, but income distribution and the provision of key public services deteriorated....
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