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What do we know about non-clinical interventions for preventable and treatable childhood diseases in developing countries?
Seguin, Maureen; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2013
Preventable and treatable childhood diseases, notably acute respiratory infections and diarrhoeal diseases are the first and second leading causes of death and morbidity among young children in developing countries. The fact that a large proportion of child deaths are caused by these diseases is...
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Does an effective government lower COVID19's health impact? : evidence from Viet Nam
Dang Duc Anh; Ngoc Anh Tran - 2022
Government effectiveness has played an important role in tackling the crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This paper discusses the different aspects of government effectiveness in explaining the variation in the COVID-19 confirmed cases and death levels in Viet Nam. We use the...
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COVID-19 and the state
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Vaccaro, Andrea - 2021
We expect effective state institutions to matter in a country's ability to respond to crises. Yet notably in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, what has stood out in simple global snapshots is that wealthier countries with stronger institutions have had the highest numbers of cases and...
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Fishermen's wives : on the cultural origins of violence against women
Leyaro, Vincent; Selaya, Pablo; Trifkovic, Neda - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017
We study the roots of violence against women, and propose that it partly originates in cultural norms that derive from (a) characteristics of the traditional subsistence problem in different societies, and (b) differences in the sexual division of labor for solving that problem in each society....
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Horizontal inequality, COVID-19, and lockdown readiness : evidence from India
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Kundu, Anustup - 2020
A growing body of research shows that COVID-19 both reflects and exacerbates existing inequalities. However, there are significant gaps in this research area with respect to 'horizontal' or group-based inequalities in Global South countries. Lack of group-disaggregated data often contributes. In...
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Bride price and the wellbeing of women
Lowes, Sara; Nunn, Nathan - 2017
Bride price, which is payment from the groom and/or the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage, is a common cultural practice in many African societies. It is often argued that the practice may have negative effects for girls and women because it may: incentivize early...
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The long-run weight of communism or the weight of long-run history?
Roland, Gérard - 2010
This study provides evidence that culture understood as values and beliefs moves very slowly. Despite massive … that culture is affected by the long run historical past, in particular the participation in empires for over 100 years … experience of the twentieth century. -- culture ; institutional change ; transition ; economic history …
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Terms of trade and growth of resource economies : a tale of two countries
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2011
The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade, employing as case studies the two African countries, Botswana and Nigeria.Using distributed-lag analysis, the paper finds that the effect of terms of trade on output is positive and...
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General budget support, health expenditures, and neonatal mortality rate : a synthetic control approach
Alavuotunki, Kaisa - 2015
I examine impacts of general budget support in 12 countries using the synthetic control approach. First, I analyse changes in government expenditures on health before and after the introduction of budget support. Second, I look at neonatal mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health...
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Aid and policy preference in oil-rich countries : comparing Indonesia and Nigeria
Fuady, Ahmad Helmy - 2014
This paper analyses the role of foreign aid to assist development in two oil-rich countries: Indonesia and Nigeria. This paper seeks to understand the way foreign aid provided assistance to transform Indonesia from a 'fragile' state in the 1960s into one of the 'Asian Tigers' in the mid-1990s,...
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