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. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …
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children’s human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and health, which pertain directly to some …
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higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …
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The central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in … Mozambique. The text shows that of the social determinants of health, institutions play a central role in the performance of the … Mozambican health sector-and, through it, economic and social development-particularly for the poorer and more vulnerable, such …
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We examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and … incidence of environmentally related impacts on health simultaneously worsens the rate of inequality reduction, we find that … those countries that experience faster reduction in the level of environmentally related impacts on health tend to converge …
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health of a population when other data are not available. We investigate how informative this approach is in terms of … of sample for countries where we lack income and health data. …
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Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results....
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important in what refers to human capital accumulation in middle- and low-income countries and health in high-income countries …
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outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …
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Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
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