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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...

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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...

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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)...

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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,...

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- Mon fils, vous avez tort de risquer votre argent dans les actions, La Bourse est un coupe-forge, le bitume une cochonnerie, les mines sont des précipices..... un homme sage doit jouir tranquillement de sa fortune..... – C’est vrai, ma mère, j’ai tort, mais j’ai besoin de quelques milliers de francs et je viens vous prier... - Mon dieu !... ce serait avec plaisir..... mais...... franchement ...

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Mr Mug's mother tells him that investing in the stock market is a risky way to earn money.

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Thoughts on the help for working parents plan

Gordon, Linda - In: Feminist Economics 1 (1995) 2, pp. 91-94

job availability and threatens to further stigmatize mothers receiving public assistance. …

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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Dhaka's Slums, Bangladesh

Cortez, Rafael; Hinson, Laura; Petroni, Suzanne - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Adolescents around the world face tremendous challenges to meeting their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs. Inadequate access to health information and services, as well as inequitable gender norms, contribute to a lack of awareness about puberty, sexuality, and basic human rights that...

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Co-resident and absent mothers: Motherhood and labour force participation in South Africa

Dorrit, Posel; Gabrielle, van der Stoep - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The effects of motherhood on women's labour force participation are estimated usually for mothers who are co … co-resident mothers in South Africa, not co-resident mothers are significantly more likely to be labour force … participants. The selection on co-residency, which excludes mothers who are labour migrants, therefore overestimates the negative …

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Achieving MDGs 4&5: Nepal's Progress on Maternal and Child Health

Saadat, Seemeen; Cortez, Rafael; Voetberg, Albertus; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Nepal has achieved its targets for MDGs 4 and 5a. Maternal mortality declined from 790 to an estimated 190 deaths per 100,000 live births between 1990 and 2013 an impressive 76 percent decline. Under-five mortality showed a similarly impressive decline going from 142 to 42 deaths per 1,000...

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Intervenciones de estimulación infantil temprana en los países en vías de desarrollo: lo que funciona, por qué y para quién

Boo, Helen Baker-Henningham y Florencia López - In: Económica 60 (2014) January-December, pp. 120-186

This article reviews the effectiveness of 33 early childhood stimulation interventions in children 0-3 year-old in developing countries. The article explores the conditions under which these programs work, why and for what populations they have greater effectiveness. We conclude that the...

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