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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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The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of crude oil price movements on two macro variables, the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate and the consumer price index (CPI) inflation rate, in three countries, the People's Republic of China (an emerging economy), Japan, and the United...
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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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The impact of the expansion of the middle class in developing countries has been widely investigated in recent years. The middle class is generally apprehended by its overall demographic size, which, we believe, may hide crucial features and differences across nations because the composition of...
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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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Governments have faced increasing pressure for energy policy to converge around efficiency, sustainability, affordability, and access in recent years. However, separate "silos" rather than an integrated policy framework have addressed these objectives, widening the policy trade-offs. The...
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negative health impacts in a society. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between energy … consumption and health issues (e.g., tracheal, bronchial and lung cancer, respiratory diseases, prevalence of undernourishment … consumption on undernourishment and death ratio. Furthermore, we find that gross domestic product per capita and health care …
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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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