other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication … has to be accompanied with other policies such as increasing economic growth and expanding the use of telephones, cell …

linking social spending, human capital, and growth in a system of equations. The paper finds that both education and health … spending have a positive and significant direct impact on the accumulation of education and health capital, and thus canlead to … higher economic growth. The paper also finds that other policy interventions, such as improving governance, reducing …

impact of both trends on long-run economic growth is studied, and results are discussed in light of relevant policy debate. …

This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … supply-side capacity. Given the strong links between trade-led growth, economic upgrading, and poverty reduction, the paper … argues that trade led economic growth must be prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda. …

-demographic literature emphasizes differential fertility channel, this paper investigates differential child mortality - differences in child … model in which both child mortality and fertility are endogenously determined by parental choice, this paper demonstrates … that differential child mortality and its interaction with differential fertility may generate an quot;income inequality …

and issues across several disciplines including economics, nutrition, psychology and public health in the hope of …, Bangladesh, Kenya, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Pakistan and extending the analytical framework used in economics and biomedical … policy formation going forward. A chapter on the growing obesity epidemic is also included, highlighting the new set of …

effects on women's wellbeing. We analyse the consequences of sterilization on maternal health. To do so, we take advantage of …