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The economic case for devoting public resources to health
Bloom, David E.; Fink, Guenther - 2013
may promote economic well-being – via beneficial changes in labor productivity, education, and investment, and through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754512
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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal
Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258151
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Does investment in education and health impact youth employment outcomes? : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Anowor, Oluchukwu F.; Ichoku, Hyacinth E.; Onodugo, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16
study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health … investment comprising private and government health expenditures, primary, secondary and tertiary education expenditures were … problem of youth unemployment in SSA would require serial consistent disproportionate investment more in education than in …
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On the Concept of Equity in Opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - 2011
changes in the opportunities for health care and education in the Philippines from 1998 to 2007. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507307
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On the concept of equity in opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - 2011
changes in the opportunities for health care and education in the Philippines from 1998 to 2007. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379832
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On the Concept of Equity in Opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2011
changes in the opportunities for health care and education in the Philippines from 1998 to 2007. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291917
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Climate changes affect human capital
Caruso, Germán; De Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023
Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251487
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Cognitive development and infectious disease : gender differences in investments and outcomes
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - 2013
differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228782
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Socioeconomic inequity in excessive weight in Indonesia
Aizawa, Toshiaki; Helble, Matthias - 2016
Exploiting the Indonesian Family Life Survey, this paper studies the transition of socioeconomic related disparity of excess weight, including overweight and obesity, from 1993 to 2014. First, we show that the proportions of overweight and obese people in Indonesia increased rapidly during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471521
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Economic reasoning on the correlation between life expectancy and economic development : exploring alternative routes
Wittmann, Nadine - 2014
Regarding the connection between economic development and public health, the statistically evident correlation between a country's gross domestic product and life expectancy is widely discussed. An important aspect that keeps resurfacing in discussions on why the relationship between the latter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010425989