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Empowering youth: The impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador
Aguirre, Kamila; Carrión-Yaguana, Vanessa D. - 2023
This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically examining its implementation in schools. The inclusion of sex education as a mandatory cross-cutting theme in the updated and strengthened educational curriculum of 2010 provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477581
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Poor health reporting: Do poor South Africans underestimate their health needs?
Rossouw, Laura - 2015
Researchers often rely on household survey data to investigate health disparities and the incidence and prevalence of illness. These self-reported health measures are often biased due to information asymmetry or differences in reference groups. Using the World Health Organization study on global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418628
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Inequality of opportunity in child health in Sudan: Across-region study
Ebaidalla, Ebaidalla Mahjoub - 2019
This study aims to examine the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years of age, using the Sudanese 2014 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. It investigates the variation in inequality across and within regions, decomposing inequality into a portion that...
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Contested relationships: Women's economic and social empowerment, insights from the transfer of material assets in Bangladesh
Scott, Lucy - 2012
poverty. It is based on the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh, investigating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319785
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A stochastic simulation approach to estimating the economic impacts of climate change in Bangladesh
Thurlow, James; Dorosh, Paul; Yu, Winston - 2011
-wide model of Bangladesh, we estimate and decompose damages from historical climate variability and future anthropogenic climate … distribution of damages and slows Bangladesh's long- run shift (adaptation) into dry (winter) season rice production. …
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The political economy of food price: The case of Bangladesh
Raihan, Selim - 2013
Global food price hikes during 2007 and 2008 resulted in a sharp rise in staple food prices in Bangladesh. The poor and … studies indicated that the adverse effects of the food price hike in Bangladesh were primarily manifested by the significant … rise in the number of households falling below the poverty line income. At the political front, Bangladesh was run by an …
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Improving donor support for urban poverty reduction
Banks, Nicola - 2011
The growing urbanization of poverty poses a significant challenge to governments and donors alike, particularly in Asia, which houses 60 per cent of the world's slum dwellers. Donors have been slow to respond to the urban challenge, however, both in their funding patterns and their priorities....
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Global inequality in length of life: 1950-2015
Jordá, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017
This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the period 1950-2015. We use data on life tables from World Population Prospects to develop a comprehensive database of a battery of inequality measures for 201 countries at five-year...
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Maternal mortality and women's political participation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Gomes, Joseph Flavian; … - 2018
Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9-12 per cent decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also leads to an 8-11 per cent increase in skilled birth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943865
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Orphans and stunted growth: Investigating the potential of spatial network effects in service delivery for reducing stunting in orphans
Bridgman, Grace - 2020
Stunted growth in early life has serious implications for children and is a wellestablished constraint to productivity, life expectancy, and cognitive development. This paper evaluates the relative contributions of household resources and public service delivery in reducing the orphan-stunting...
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