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Enhancing Human Capital in Malawi : The Role of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Services
World Bank Group - 2020
Human capital is the combination of knowledge, skills and health that people accumulate throughout their lives, which allows them to realize their potential as productive members of society. The productivity of a country is affected by the quality and availability of maternal and child health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497488
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Maternity, Paternity, and Parental Leaves in Europe : Comparison of Family-Related Leave Policies and Key Legal Provisions with Implications for Kosovo
Gotcheva, Boryana - 2019
Maternity, paternity, and parental leave policies and associated benefits play a significant role in ensuring financial protection at the time of pregnancy, child birth and child raising, and in shaping women's ability to participate in employment, specifically to get a job and to remain in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497583
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Delivering the Millennium Development Goals to Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality : A Systematic Review of Impact Evaluation Evidence
Independent Evaluation Group - 2016
Improved outcomes for women and children - more education, lower fertility rates, higher nutritional status, and lower incidence of illness, among other outcomes - have broad individual, family, and societal benefits. For nearly 15 years, the targets of the millennium development goals (MDGs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497623
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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438517
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Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenthood: Recent Evidence and Future Directions
Coley, Rebekah Levine; Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - 1997
teenage mothers who are unmarried and receiving welfare have raised public concern about repercussions of young parenthood … mothers previously ascribed to mothers' age are as much causes or correlates of teenage pregnancy as effects of it, although … this claim is less substantiated regarding the effects of teenage parenthood on the children of teenage mothers. Literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703944
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Researching a Hard-To- Access and Vulnerable Population: Some Considerations on Researching Drug and Alcohol-Using Mothers
Goode, Sarah - In: Sociological Research Online 5 (2000) 1
about the lives of substance-using mothers is an important area of concern, pragmatically in terms of developing effective … everyday lives and experiences of a sample of substance-using mothers in the mid-1990s. Accessing this population proved very …
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Republic of Mozambique; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Economic and Social Plan for 2005
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This paper discusses Mozambique’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—Economic and Social Plan for 2005. In the international context, the paper presents the evolution of the international economy so as to understand under what economic conditions the country will have to implement...
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Republic of Mozambique; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This Annual Progress Report reviews Mozambique’s Economic and Social Plan for 2004. The report states that in 2004, public sector reforms were continued and consolidated. There was notable growth in social and economic infrastructure. The government was able to honor its budget execution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768441
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Vietnam; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Annual Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This paper presents the Annual Progress Report on Vietnam’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. The industrial output and export turnover have continuously increased and exceeded the targeted plan. The entire social investment has been fairly well increased, especially that of the private sector,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768446