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What Has Driven the Decline of Infant Mortality in Kenya?

Demombynes, Gabriel - 2017

-Saharan Africa. Kenya's infant mortality rate has fallen by 7.6 percent per year, the fastest rate of decline among the 20 countries … in the region for which recent Demographic and Health Survey data is available. Kenya's rate of postneonatal deaths per 1 … widespread ownership of insecticide-treated bednets in areas of Kenya where malaria is rare suggests that better targeting of …

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Why Do Some Oil-Rich Countries Perform Better than Others?

Iqbal, Farrukh - 2017

Progress in child mortality reduction and education attainment varies widely among oil-rich countries. This paper investigates the causes of this variation using an empirical model that departs from the available literature in allowing for explicit measurement of the impact of initial levels of...

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The Socioeconomics of Fish Consumption and Child Health in Bangladesh

Dasgupta, Susmita - 2019

Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHO's threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records from several waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, the research focuses on the socioeconomic determinants of household consumption of all animal-source foods;...

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Feeding of Infants and Young Children in South Asia

Torlesse, Harriet - 2018

Poor breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices predict child stunting and wasting in South Asia, suggesting that initiatives to end undernutrition in the region should focus on improving the diets of young children. This review of the literature finds that South Asia has made relatively...

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Can Environmental Policy Reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence from the Ganga Pollution Cases

Do, Quy-Toan - 2018

In many developing countries, environmental quality remains low and policies to improve it have been inconsistently effective. This paper conducts a case study of environmental policy in India, focusing on unprecedented Supreme Court rulings that targeted industrial pollution in the Ganga River....

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Public Spending and Outcomes : Does Governance Matter?

Rajkumar, Andrew Sunil - 2017

The authors examine the role of governance-measured by level of corruption and quality of bureaucracy-and ask how it affects the relationship between public spending and outcomes. Their main innovation is to see if differences in efficacy of public spending can be explained by quality of...

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Drinking Water Salinity and Infant Mortality in Coastal Bangladesh

Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017

Bangladesh, with two-thirds of its land area less than five meters above sea level, is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world. Low-lying coastal districts along the Bay of Bengal are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise, tidal flooding, storm surges, and climate-induced...

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Diet Quality, Child Health, and Food Policies in Developing Countries

Bhargava, Alok - 2017

future supply of skilled labor and economic growth. Evidence on these issues from countries such as Bangladesh, India, Kenya …

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The Reduction of Child Mortality in the Middle East and North Africa : A Success Story

Iqbal, Farrukh - 2017

Although child mortality rates have declined all across the developing world over the past 40 years, they have declined the most in the Middle East and North Africa region. This paper documents this remarkable experience and shows that it is broad based in the sense that all countries in the...

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Poverty and Survival Prospects of Vietnamese Children Under Doi Moi

Wagstaff, Adam - 2017

By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions in, and low levels of, infant and under-five mortality. The authors review existing evidence and provide new evidence on whether, under the economic liberalization program...

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