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Health expenditures, health outcomes and the role of good governance

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Aggregate Economic Shocks and Infant Mortality : New Evidence for Middle-Income Countries

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We provide country-specific estimates of the effect of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality for a sample of mainly middle-income countries. In most countries, infant mortality appears to be pro-cyclical or acyclical. Only when shocks to GDP are very deep, 15% or larger, are they consistently...

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Improving Diets Through Food Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : Metrics for Analysis

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Taking a food systems approach is a promising strategy for improving diets. Implementing such an approach would require the use of a comprehensive set of metrics to characterize food systems, set meaningful goals, track food systems performance, and evaluate the impacts of food systems...

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Food System Innovations for Healthier Diets in Low and Middle-Income Countries

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Malnutrition in all its forms is a major challenge everywhere in the world, and particularly in low and middle income countries. To reduce malnutrition, innovations in food systems are needed to both provide sufficient options for consumers to obtain diets with adequate nutritional value, and to...

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