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the poor and vulnerable. Addressing child and maternal health issues within the context of the economic crisis is one key … countries, child and maternal health-related indicators tend to be disturbing despite the rapid growth rates in many of these … maternal health and pre/post natal care remains poor. This paper presents an overview of child and maternal health in the South …
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, even as childhood undernutrition remains a public health problem. These have important consequences for the design of … public health systems, especially in rural India. At the same time, the intra-household dual burden of malnutrition is also …
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Given its role in affecting financial behavior, financial literacy has received considerable attention from researchers and policy makers alike. This paper employs data from a nationally representative survey in Indonesia to investigate the impact of financial literacy on poverty, which is a...
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Latin American has the longest history of regional integration efforts in the developing world. This paper analyzes the experience of regional monetary cooperation in Latin America over the past three decades. This experience has been overall successful but also uneven, both in terms of country...
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Multilateral development finance is at a critical juncture. In the past 70 years, it has developed through four distinct stages. The Bretton Woods conference established the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in 1944 to finance post-war reconstruction and stabilize the global...
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This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices, producer prices, and wages. As these mechanisms affect the real...
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International remittances represent the second most important source of external funding for developing countries after foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the impact of international remittances on poverty reduction using the panel data of 10 Asian developing countries. In...
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To what extent do the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank remain central today … course of global governance in health, trade, and development finance has changed irreversibly. Second, regional arrangements …. Fifth, the new architecture can be described as one of diversification in global health governance, fragmentation in global …
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The global economy has been facing a series of adverse shocks in recent years including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, high inflation, and interest rate shocks driven by global monetary policy normalization. The high cost of fossil fuels since 2021,...
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