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This paper examines the longer-term impact of a project that expanded access to playgroup services in rural Indonesia. It compares the outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time. One cohort was eligible to access playgroups during...
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This paper studies the effect of maternal depression on early childhood cognition in Peru. The identification strategy exploits variation in exposure to exogenous shocks during early life to instrument for maternal depression. The results suggest that maternal depression is detrimental to the...
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increasing demand from aging societies - combined with limited pension income - a series of market failures constrain supply and …
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Malnutrition is a huge burden on the Arab Republic of Egypt's economy. Undernutrition-manifested by poor linear growth … an estimated two percent of Egypt's annual gross domestic product through forgone productivity and health care costs … Egypt aims to inform the development of nutrition policy and guide nutrition investments over the coming years. It reviews …
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treatment plants. This case study documents New Cairo, Egypt …
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In 2016 the Government of Egypt (GoE) has embarked on an ambitious and much needed transition towards a better economic …. Egypt has recognized that in order to raise competitiveness, increase investments in human capital, and sustain the benefits …
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Confronted with pervasive macroeconomic imbalances and microeconomic distortions, the Government of Egypt (GOE) started … in 2016 to move forward with important reforms to stabilize the economy and restore confidence. At that time, Egypt was … private investment in generation and establish Egypt's potential as an oil and gas producer by reducing pricing distortions …
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(WASH) nationwide in Egypt. Monetized estimates are provided of the social and economic cost of these health effects in … Egyptian pounds and as a percentage of Egypt's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2016/17, using standard economic valuation … techniques. The report finds that 19,200 people died prematurely and over 3 billion days were lived with illness in Egypt in 2017 …
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In 2015, a large share of Egypt's population was either poor (27.8 percent) or not poor but vulnerable to falling into … poverty (an additional 28.7percent); most of the poor and vulnerable lived in the governorates of Upper Egypt. Clearly the … country faces a challenge, but it also has the knowledge to craft solutions. Egypt's recent reforms have started to address …
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The previous decade in Egypt was marked by major internal and external shocks that have surely had severe implications … twofold. The first is to provide a detailed description of the methodology that has been applied in Egypt in estimating …
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