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Liberation technology : mobile phones and political mobilization in Africa
Manacorda, Marco; Tesei, Andrea - 2016
Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with geo-referenced data from multiple sources on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441476
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Calling for nexus thinking in Africa's energy planning
De Strasser, Lucia - 2017
competition. The situation in Africa is particularly problematic, as the continent lags behind all others in terms of quality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695464
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Digitalization for energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa : challenges, opportunities and potential business models
Mazzoni, Davide - 2019
collection, are already giving a big contribution in fostering the access to electricity and clean cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa …. This paper gives an overview on the actual state of energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa and the current technologies used … Africa, financial aspects and market analysis. The perspective of both companies and end-users have been considered here. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980678
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Reimbursement of Medicine Outlays: An Optimal Insurance Approach
Hansen, Bodil O.; keiding, Hans - 1999
In this paper, the reimbursement of spending on medicin is considered as a problem of insurance, where the loss due to illness of the insured is covered totally or partially by an insurance company (which may be the government). The presence of moral hazard (in the form of the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142226
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Delivering parenting interventions through health services in the Caribbean impact, acceptability and costs
Walker, Susan P.; Powell, Christine; Chang, Susan M.; … - 2015
Integrating early childhood interventions with health and nutrition services has been recommended, however there is limited information on interventions that are effective and feasible for delivery through health services. In this trial we developed and evaluated a parenting program that could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527464
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Estrategias de apoyo parental a través de los servicios de salud en el Caribe : impacto, aceptabilidad y costos
Walker, Susan P.; Powell, Christine; Chang, Susan M.; … - 2016
Integrating early childhood interventions with health and nutrition services has been recommended, however there is limited information on interventions that are effective and feasible for delivery through health services. In this trial we developed and evaluated a parenting program that could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527469
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The psychometric properties of child care quality measures in Ecuadord : lessons for monitoring process variables at scale
López Bóo, Florencia; Dormal, Marta; Weber, Ann - 2016
This paper analyzes four instruments that are widely used to measure the quality of centers serving children ages 0 to 36 months - the CLASS, the ITERS-R, the CC-IT-HOME, and the MITRCC - and that were administered to a sample of 404 child care centers in Ecuador. We first assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555482
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School health programs : education, health, and welfare dependency of young adults
Abrahamsen, Signe A.; Ginja, Rita; Riise Kolstad, Julie - 2021
This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively low cost have positive and lasting impacts. We use variation from a 1999-reform in Norway that induced substantial differences in the avail-ability of health professionals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599634
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Child care quality and child development
Araujo, María Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017
Development in early childhood predicts schooling and labor market outcomes in adulthood. In this paper we use a fixed effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor, and problem solving skills of infants and toddlers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626015
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La calidad de los jardines de cuidado infantil y el desarrollo infantil
Araujo, María Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017
Development in early childhood predicts schooling and labor market outcomes in adulthood. In this paper we use a fixed effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor, and problem solving skills of infants and toddlers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626020