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The Welfare Improvement Strategy (WIS) of Uzbekistan has the objective of improving living standards of its people with the help of strong economic policies for all priority areas of development. The report reviews economic and social policies and assesses the living standards of its people. It...
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, and appropriate health services. The impact that these factors have on adolescent health and development is clearly seen … to education, basic health information, and SRH services, contributing to a lack of awareness and knowledge about SRH and … determinants have on access to ASRH services and health outcomes; and the impact that recently implemented policies and programs …
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This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from 118 countries between … 1973 and 2004. Health aid has a statistically significant effect on infant mortality: doubling per capita health aid is … capita health aid by US$1.60 per year is associated with 1.5 fewer infant deaths per thousand births. The estimated effect is …
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with insufficient outcomes with respect to health, nutrition, and literacy and deficient social relations, insecurity, and … deprivation in different dimensions for example income, health and education. The human development and human deprivation studies …
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Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise … of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the … current and projected future economic conditions. But many of the health burdens and costs can be avoided, or at least delayed …
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education and health services. Lesotho plans to deal boldly with its trading and investment partners by exploiting the …
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Tanzania's Second National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP II) is a continuation of government and national commitments to accelerate economic growth and fight poverty. Though MKUKUTA I (NSGRP I) yielded demonstrable positive results, it failed to meet some targets. MKUKUTA...
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This paper discusses key findings of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Côte d’Ivoire. The paper reveals that poverty is more acute in rural areas than in urban areas of Côte d’Ivoire. The increase of poverty is greater in the city of Abidjan, with about a 50 percent increase,...
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service , and local government. Distinct effort has been made to improve delivery of social services such as education, health …
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. Djibouti suffers from a gross lack of reliable health statistics. Available information gives only a fragmented picture of the … reality, but globally, it reveals a difficult health situation. The promotion of a coherent and integrated employment policy …
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