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Sanctioned to death? The impact of economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2017
In this paper, we empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap in target countries. Our sample covers 98 less developed and newly industrialized countries over the period 1977-2012. We employ a matching approach to account for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853149
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Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Neumeier, Florian; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2018
We empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap in target countries. Our sample covers 98 less developed and newly industrialized countries over the period 1977–2012. We employ a matching approach to account for the endogeneity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892010
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Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2019
evidence that an increase in child mortality and Cholera deaths as well as a decrease in public spending on health care are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179832
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Human Development in Africa: A Long-Run Perspective
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2011
Long-run trends in Africa's well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to the UNDP's HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669358
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World Human Development: 1870-2007
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2013
terms of longevity. As the health transition was achieved in the Rest, the contribution of life expectancy to human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669384
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Human Development as Positive Freedom: Latin America in Historical Perspective
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2015
1980, as Latin America fell behind the OECD in terms of longevity. Once the first health transition was exhausted, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669427
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Human Development in the Age of Globalisation
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2019
-and-a-half centuries on the basis of an augmented historical human development index [AHHDI] that combines achievements in health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669506
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Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2017
In this paper, we empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap in target countries. Our sample covers 98 less developed and newly industrialized countries over the period 1977–2012. We employ a matching approach to account for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763421
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Policy Study on the National and Local Government Expenditures for Millennium Development Goals, 2000-2005
Manasan, Rosario G. - 2008
and women empowerment; reduction of child mortality; improvement of maternal health; control of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and … (gender equality), Goal 5 (maternal health), Goal 6 (control of communicable diseases), and Goal 7 (environmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421107
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A Reversal in the Relationship of Human Development with Fertility?
Harttgen, Kenneth; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2012
HDI calculation method nor the decomposition of the HDI into its education, standard of living and health sub-indices. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329948