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Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a...
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? Despite the acute concern of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has made the subject … postulations of a WHO report on determinants of health-worker migration. …Purpose - How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy …
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of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has made the subject matter empirically void …-worker migration. Findings provide a broad range of tools for the fight against health-worker brain-drain. As a policy implication …How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy, corruption …
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Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource (HHR) migration, the empirical dimension of the health … literature by empirically investigating the WHO hypothetical determinants of health-worker migration in the context of …-worker crisis debate has remained void despite abundant theoretical literature. A health worker crisis is overwhelming the world …
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This paper examines three relevant hypotheses on the incidence of health worker migration on human development and … economic prosperity (at macro and micro levels) in Africa. Owing to lack of relevant data on Health Human Resource (HHR …) migration for the continent, the subject matter has remained empirically void over the last decades despite the acute concern of …
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. In addition, trade and migration are not equivalent if social capital is present: the highest welfare is obtained with … migration under the corner solution, the second highest welfare is obtained with trade, and the lowest welfare is obtained with … migration under the internal solution. The first two solutions (third solution) raise (may raise or reduce) welfare relative to …
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estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult … heterogeneity and sample selection are assessed in the cases of Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. Political restrictions in South Africa … local quality of schooling, which appear to benefit disproportionately the above-average income households in Africa, as in …
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Sleep is a source of energy. This energy is available in limited quantity and individuals must decide when it should be renewed and when it should be consumed. The economics of sleeping and the economics of resource extraction are one and the same. More specifically, utility maximization with...
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Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …
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's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …
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