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Bangladesh: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance

El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world. Poverty remains high at 43 percent of the population subsist on less than United States (U.S.) $1.25 per day (2010). Bangladesh achieved several millennium development goal (MDG) targets in education, health, and poverty...

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Bhutan: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance

El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Bhutan is a small landlocked country in the Himalayas between China and India. Poverty reduction has been rapid from …

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India: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance

El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

India is the third largest economy and has the second largest population in the world. It achieved millennium development goal (MDG) on poverty reduction; however, gender inequality still persists. Maternal mortality rate is 190 deaths per 100,000 live births, representing a 65 percent decline...

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Nepal: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance

El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Nepal has made a remarkable progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially in extreme poverty and education. Nepal has achieved MDG 5 but only one in three births is attended by skilled medical personnel. Disparities exist in access to maternal care by residence and...

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Afghanistan: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance

El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Afghanistan suffers from poverty and low human development aggravated by 23 years of conflict. In 2012, the population was 29 million and per capita income US $268. Economic growth was estimated at 3.6 percent in 2013, down from 14.4 percent in 2012. The transition led to investor and consumer...

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Reforming the Gender-Related Development Index and the Gender Empowerment Measure: Implementing Some Specific Proposals

Klasen, Stephan; Schuler, Dana - In: Feminist Economics 17 (2011) 1, pp. 1-30

Since their inception in 1995, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Gender-Related Development Index (GDI …) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) have been criticized on conceptual and empirical grounds. In 2005-6, the UNDP's Human …

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Human Development Index for Rural Andhra Pradesh

Bedi, Jatinder S.; Ramachandran, H. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

considering indicators such as economic attainment, longevity and education. Using UNDP method to estimate Human Development Index … Development using both UNDP and Principal Component Analysis. The comparison of results show that there has been only marginal … improvement in Human development during the 1990s in rural AP considering only inequality in economic indicator using UNDP method …

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Sewing climate-resilient seeds: implementing climate change adaptation best practices in rural Cambodia

Anthony D’Agostino; Sovacool, Benjamin - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 16 (2011) 6, pp. 699-720

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Bolivar frente a los objetivos de desarrollo del milenio

Espinosa, Aaron Espinosa; Arrieta, Jorge Alvis; … - In: REVISTA ECONOMÍA & REGIÓN (2008)

A pesar de los avances observados en los Objetivos deDesarrollo del Milenio (ODM) por parte de la mayoría delos países signatarios de la declaración en el año 2000, elavance al interior de los países en desarrollo y en especial Colombia, un país con desigual desarrollo de sus regiones, es...

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Impacts of economic variables and the corruption perception index on human development

Srithongkul, Phimwalun; Pastpipatkul, Pathairat - In: The Empirical Econometrics and Quantitative Economics … 2 (2013) 1, pp. 71-78

human well-beings, human development was become the international goal after UNDP launched Human Development Index (HDI …

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