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The nitrogen legacy : the long-term effects of water pollution on human capital

Zaveri, Esha D.; Russ, Jason; Desbureaux, Sébastien; … - 2020

The fallout of nitrogen pollution is considered one of the largest global externalities facing the world, impacting air …, Vietnam, and 33 African countries to analyze the causal links between pollution exposure experienced during the very earliest … stages of life and later-life health. The results show that pollution exposure experienced in the critical years of …

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The 2019 update of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators Database : an overview

Wagstaff, Adam; Eozenou, Patrick; Neelsen, Sven; Smitz, Marc - 2019

This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators database. On the financial protection side, the changes include an increase in the number of indicators from five to 14; revisions to several previous data points,...

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Out-of-pocket expenditures on health : a global stocktake

Wagstaff, Adam; Eozenou, Patrick; Smitz, Marc - 2019

This paper provides an overview of research on out-of-pocket health expenditures, reviewing the various summary measures and the results of multi-country studies using these measures. The paper presents estimates for 146 countries from all World Bank income groups for all summary measures, along...

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Sustainable Development Goals diagnostics : an application of network theory and complexity measures to set country priorities

El-Maghrabi, M. H.; Gable, S.; Rodarte, I. Osorio; … - 2018

The United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals are comprehensive and holistic in nature, as they includes 17 goals and 169 targets covering economic, social, and environmental dimensions of development. In this context, policy makers face the challenge of translating the...

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