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Over the past decades child stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at alarming rates. While the country experienced several …
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Recent surveys show considerable progress in maternal and child health in Ethiopia. The improvement has been in health … outcomes and health services coverage. The study examines how different groups have fared in this progress. It tracked 11 … health outcome indicators and health interventions related to Millennium Development Goals 1, 4, and 5. These are stunting …
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of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia … that never used the improved stove. This is a substantial effect with implications for greater health and well … children and adult cooks in treated households relative to control households. The results advance understanding of the health …
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southern Ethiopia. The randomization of incentives to purchase index-based livestock insurance and three rounds of panel data …
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In low- and middle-income countries, scaling essential health interventions to achieve health development targets is … constrained by the lack of skilled health professionals to deliver services. This paper takes a labor market approach to project … future health workforce demand based on an economic model that projects economic growth, demographics, and health coverage …
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health workers in rural Burkina Faso provides strong evidence that the interaction of effort costs, ability, and intrinsic … and extrinsic incentives significantly influences service delivery to the poor. Health workers reviewed video vignettes of … on effort than bonuses to serve the nonpoor; health workers who receive equal bonuses to serve poor and nonpoor patients …
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A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task...
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-for-performance scheme that rewarded community health worker cooperatives for the utilization of five targeted maternal and child health … impact of the performance payments on coverage of the targeted services, attitudes and behaviors of community health workers …
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soil health and how it is changing under past and current management. Historically, plot-level statistics derived from … data. The Living Standards Measurement Study of the World Bank implemented a methodological study in Ethiopia, which … with the World Agroforestry Centre and the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia, were twofold: (1) evaluate the …
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