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Achieving MDGs 4&5: China's Progress on Maternal and Child Health
Cortez, Rafael; Saadat, Seemeen; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
China has made great progress in improving maternal and child health (MCH). It reduced maternal deaths from 1,500 per 100,000 live births and over 200 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 1949 to 120 per 100,000 live births and infant deaths to 42 per 1,000 by 1990. Currently China is on track...
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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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State and labour migration in the South African political economy, with particular respect to gold mining.
J, Bardill; R, Southall; C, Perrings - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1977
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on migrant worker labour supply in Southern Africa, with particular respect to gold … mining - analyses the implications of Apartheid and racial segregation policies on migration policy and employment policy in … relation to Black migrants and expatriate workers, examines labour mobility, wage differentials, employment of miners, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966426
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Analysis of migration to greater khartoum (Sudan).
Oberai, A. S - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1975
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, emanating from a WEP research project concerned with population and employment, on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966563
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Human capital on the Nile : development and emigration in the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Democratic Republic of the Sudan
Birks, J. S; Sinclair, C. A - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1978
in Egypt and Sudan - includes general information on economic conditions, human capital, population, employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967024
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Patterns of Migration, Water Scarcity and Caste in Rural Northern Gujarat
Fishman, Ram; Jain, Meha; Kishore, Avinash - eSocialSciences - 2013
Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater …
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A Model of Multiple Equilibria in Geographic Labor Mobility
Ubeda, Luis; Spilimbergo, Antonio - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
We develop a model of double matching in the labor market and the social environment in order to explain different migration patterns in response to local economic shocks. This approach explains the different behaviors of workers in different groups, regions, or countries in an endogenous way by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264165
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Remittances in the Pacific Region
Mineshima, Aiko; Browne, Christopher - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
the impact of emigration due to low growth and limited employment prospects at home. Many Pacific emigrants settle abroad …
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Migration and Urban Poverty in India Some Preliminary Observations
Mishra, Udaya S.; Joe, William; Samaiyar, Priyajit - eSocialSciences - 2009
Employment - Unemployment Survey 1999-2000 (EUS) provided by the National Sample Survey Organisation. A broad descriptive socio …-economic profiling of the migrant households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate …
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Profile of Hired Farmworkers, A 2008 Update
Kandel, William - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2008
methods that permit year-round employment, expanding immigrant populations in nonmetropolitan counties, and growing concerns …
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