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"Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of such projects, and an important input into decision making. These analyses, however, often fail to monetize the benefits of reduced death and injury. The authors review the...
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demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the …
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addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …
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"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of …
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and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have …
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contributes to the literature on the economic analysis of conflict. Using mortality data for siblings from the Cambodia … Demographic and Health Survey in 2000, he shows that excess mortality was extremely high and heavily concentrated during 1974 … educated background were more likely to die. Infant mortality was also at very high levels during the period, and disability …
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Health outcomes are positively correlated with income, but the link is far from uniform. The key variables associated with good health outcomes (controlling for health expenditures) are access rates to health services, to clean water and sanitation, and to education, particularly for women
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Why do some households manage better than others in overcoming the impact of an adult death? The household's ability to cope is a function of the resources it can command, including its access to private networks for social insurance and credit. Public intervention can reduce vulnerability ex...
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