academic analyses on “weak” or “failing states” in Africa and elsewhere. However, the concentration on externally induced … static cultural factors as custom, tradition or ethnicity, often said to be barriers to economic growth in Africa, have been … invented or adapted to changing requirements of societies. Rather than blaming the failure of development efforts in Africa …

This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 …-2 years of age, with a view to studying two aspects of the neglect of children: their likelihood of being immunised against … of vaccinations, the likelihood of girls being fully vaccinated, after controlling for other variables, was five …

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 …

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 …

This article deals with the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on poverty and education in Africa. It considers the scale … other vulnerable children (OVC). …

Health Survey food consumption data for over 93,000 children from 21 African countries and Global Land Cover Facility tree … relationship between animal source food consumption and tree cover. Overall our findings suggest that children in Africa who live … cover data to examine the relationship between tree cover and three key indicators of the nutritional quality of children …

Faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) commonly have as their stated mission a desire to provide quality health services to … representative household surveys in Africa, this paper suggests that when compared with public providers on a broad macro scale, FIIs … services more affordable. However, it suggests that in current African health contexts, FIIs may no longer be that different …

The issue of whether faith-inspired providers are able to reach the poor depends in part on the cost of the health … assess to what extent the cost of healthcare is a major reason for not being satisfied with health services and whether …