Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved much less … growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We do this by pooling all DHS surveys for African countries, control …

Book reviewed in this article: Peter Lawrence and Colin Thirtle (eds.) - Africa and Asia in Comparative Economic …

methods. Chapter 1 examines corruption (anti-social behavior) across Sub-Saharan Africa. In this chapter, we consider the …

undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the …

Um Armut zu bekämpfen, muss die menschliche Entwicklung gestärkt werden. Allerdings werden heute 250 Millionen Kinder … erreichen. Um Hindernisse für eine optimale menschliche Entwicklung zu beseitigen, untersucht diese Dissertation die Wirkung von … Determinanten kindlicher Entwicklung auf der Ebene des Kindes, der Eltern, der Schule oder des Landes. Der erste Aufsatz stellt die …

any, effect. Our simulations indicate that if high-fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa had experienced similar …

reversion. Hence, high rates observed recently for Sub-Saharan Africa make for an overly optimistic estimate of future …-Saharan Africa are likely to attain the new targets while a majority of countries elsewhere are likely to attain the target or have … done so already. We also show that while MDG4 has been rightly criticized as `unfair' to Sub-Saharan Africa in the past, a …