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Big Data y Algoritmos para la Medición de la Pobreza y el Desarrollo
Sosa Escudero, Walter - 2023
Eritrea es un pequeño país del noreste de África, al que casi todos los rankings ubican entre los tres más pobres del mundo. Eritrea hace 30 años que no tiene un censo (Jerven, 2013). Eritrea es como un hipertenso severo que no puede medirse la presión, que no puede consultar a un médico....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468148
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The 2019 update of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators Database : an overview
Wagstaff, Adam; Eozenou, Patrick; Neelsen, Sven; Smitz, Marc - 2019
This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051874
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Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations
Qaim, Matin - 2014
Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the … and health impacts have rarely been analyzed. In this article, we argue that future impact studies should include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430772
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Gender inequality in nutrition intake : evidence from a large assistance program
Wang, Qing; Zhang, Shiying - 2020
several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391116
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Who carries the burden of reproductive health and AIDS programs? : evidence from OECD donor countries
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2005
This paper tries to establish who carries the burden in supporting reproductive health and AIDS programs worldwide. The … assistance in matters of reproductive health and AIDS. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by funds and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348349
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Will economic growth be sufficient to end global poverty? : new projections of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Yusuf, Arief Anshory; Anna, Zuzy; Komarulzaman, Ahmad; … - 2023
In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014381180
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Tropical storms and mortality under climate change
Pugatch, Todd - 2019
Extreme weather induced by climate change can have major consequences for human health. In this study, I quantify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977438
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Can iron-fortified salt control anemia? : evidence from two experiments in rural Bihar
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Barnhardt, Sharon; Duflo, Esther - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482140
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Can iron-fortified salt control anemia? : evidence from two experiments in rural Bihar
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Barnhardt, Sharon; Duflo, Esther - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459843