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Fertility Decline in Botswana 1980-2006 : A Case Study

World Bank - 2010

the 13 'economic miracles' of the world for 1960-2005. The total fertility rate remains high in Sub-Saharan Africa, with … 25 countries showing a rate greater than 5.0. In contrast, Botswana experienced the greatest fertility decline in the … region during 1980-2006, with the total fertility rate decreasing from 7.1 in 1981 to 3.2 in 2006. The Botswana national …

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Fertility Decline in Algeria 1980-2006 : A Case Study

World Bank - 2010

Algeria's fertility decline defies conventional explanation. Despite inauspicious starting conditions-a high total fertility … some of its neighbors in fertility reduction. Before its fertility transition, Algeria had one of the highest crude birth … rates in the world, nearly 50 per 1,000. The fertility transition began in 1965-70, before any significant government …

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Accounting for regional differences in mother and child health : Bangladesh, West Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand

Dasgupta, Susmita; Wheeler, David - 2019

importance of commonly cited factors, such as mother's education and age, household wealth, and child birth order. However, the …

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Targeting inputs : experimental evidence from Tanzania

Giné, Xavier; Patel, Shreena; Ribeiro, Bernardo; … - 2019

Input subsidy programs (ISP) often have two conflicting targeting goals: selecting individuals with the highest marginal return to inputs on efficiency grounds, or the poorest individuals on equity grounds, allowing for a secondary market to restore efficiency gains. To study this targeting...

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Cities of workers, children, or seniors? : age structure and economic growth in a global cross-section of cities

Jedwab, Remi; Pereira, Daniel; Roberts, Mark - 2019

A large literature documents the positive influence of a city's skill structure on its rate of economic growth. By contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto largely neglected area of research. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more...

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The Analysis of Household Surveys (Reissue Edition with a New Preface) : A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy

Deaton, Angus - 2019

Two decades after its original publication, The Analysis of Household Surveys is reissued with a new preface by its … anyone with a serious interest in using household survey data to shed light on policy issues.The book reviews the analysis of … household survey data, including the construction of household surveys, the econometric tools useful for such analysis, and a …

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Snapshot of Poverty and Labor Market Outcomes in Lebanon Based on Household Budget Survey 2011-2012

Central Administration for Statistics - 2016

This brief is based on analysis of the 2011-12 household budget survey (HBS) implemented by Central Administration for …

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Health Service Delivery in Tanzania

World Bank Group - 2015

The Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs) provides a set of key indicators serving as a benchmark for service delivery performance in the health and education sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa. The overarching objective of the SDIs is to ascertain the quality of service delivery in primary education...

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Women in Agriculture : The Impact of Male Out-Migration on Women's Agency, Household Welfare, and Agricultural Productivity

World Bank - 2015

agriculture's role in regional food security, national shared prosperity, and household resilience to shocks. The objective of … this study is to investigate the feminization of agriculture as well as its implications for women's agency, household … farm household. This study is based on a quantitative field survey conducted in August 2014, as well as qualitative focus …

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Residential Electricity Subsidies in Pakistan : Targeting, Welfare Impacts, and Options for Reform

World Bank Group - 2017

nature, drawing on specially commissioned analysis of survey and administrative data on household electricity consumption, as … well as a qualitative assessment of household and service provider attitudes and experiences. Based on the findings of this … relationship between electricity consumption and welfare using household survey and electricity company microdata. Chapter III …

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