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at a rather slow pace over the past 15 years. In this study, using the Mozambican Demographic and Health Surveys 2003 and … 2011 we find that household wealth, mother's education, area of residence, and access to safe water and improved sanitation …
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In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on...
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children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households …, reducing diet diversification and increasing the exposure to malnutrition, mainly for children. Empirical evidence on such … household survey data from 2019-20, which includes a detailed consumption module and anthropometric measures for children under …
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Past research has provided evidence of clientelistic politics in delivery of programme benefits by local governments, or gram panchayats (GPs), and manipulation of GP programme budgets by legislators and elected officials at upper tiers in West Bengal, India. Using household panel survey data...
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paper examines how the temporary migration of parents for the sole purpose of work affects the health outcomes of children … health used, height-for-age, serves as a proxy for stunting. The evidence suggests that whether parental migration is … beneficial or deleterious to child health depends on which parent moved. In particular, migration of the mother has an adverse …
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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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health outcomes of children in Tanzania. Using household panel data matched with spatially disaggregated data on weather … results reveal a positive association between exposure to dry weather shocks and stunting among children. The effects are … discernible impact on child health. …
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children aged two to five years (toddlers) and boys exclusively. On the other hand, female on-farm work significantly matters … for children aged zero to two years (infants) and girls exclusively. …
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Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school …I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This … study estimation and an interrupted time series research design and find that the Right to Education Act led to a 60 per …
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-10 schools to create grade 1-10 'model' schools. Twenty-three per cent of government schools were eliminated in this education … proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I …
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