the determinants of education and health spending on the QG using quantile regressions to articulate least and best QG … performers. The following findings are established. First, on average, the effect of health (education) is decreasingly … (increasingly) positive from Hopefuls to Best Performers. Second, on within categories: (1) health spending has positive threshold …

This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and … employment. It shows that disability needs to be considered from multiple angles including aging, gender, health and poverty … impairments and health conditions …

the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … of the 33 countries in the Hopefuls category are in SSA. Second, the effect of health is decreasingly positive from … benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase …

This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education …

across all four countries. While health shocks decrease households' asset accumulation rate by 1.2 to 1.4 percentage points … anticipate the occurrence of health shocks, while droughts and floods are less predictable and thus, have a more detrimental … able cope with weather shocks, health shocks affect their asset accumulation disproportionately. Poor households are …