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on human health. Air pollution emitted from various activities in the energy supply chains is the main risk factor to … human health, along with accidental and occupational risk exposures. Estimates of premature deaths are over four million per … nexus between the energy supply chain and human health. Yet, the negative implications for human health from energy use …
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South Africans suffer from a high burden of preventable illness and premature death, despite high expenditure on health …. Over the last two decades some significant improvements have occurred in maternal and child health and in reducing the … human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) burden. However, health indicators remain poor when compared to other countries at …
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The South African government offers various support mechanisms to support Eskom, the state-owned electric utility, and the independent power producers in providing low-cost electricity, including credit and payment guarantees. Guarantees constitute contingent liabilities to the government and...
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The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) is increasingly recognizing that adequate valuation of ecosystem services is a key input to improved decision-making on protected areas, forest and natural resources more generally; but the lack of data, accepted methodologies and technical capacity have...
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for their potential value in the future. The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has been the mainstay of grants implemented …
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the failure to value ecosystem services as a major contributing cause. The 2001 environment strategy did not explicitly … address environmental valuation, although the focus on poverty and environment implies a need for valuing natural resources … and environmental services. In consultations on the 2010 environment strategy, a wide range of stakeholders stressed the …
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Africa, unique in a number of respects, is having deleterious and largely unchecked impacts on the natural environment; the …
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This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …
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This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …
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how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …-conflicting reports of intrahousehold decision making. It finds that women's power substantially matters for health and various family and … reproductive outcomes. Women taking power is also better for children's outcomes, in particular for girls' health, but it is worse …
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