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Do natural disasters affect human capital? : an assessment based on existing empirical evidence
Baez, Javier; Fuente, Alejandro de la; Santos, Indhira - 2010
-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation of human capital, focusing on consumption, nutrition, education and … health, including mental health. Three major findings come forward from this work. First, disasters appear to bring … substantial damages to human capital, including death and destruction, and produce deleterious consequences on nutrition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009006998
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Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence
Baez, Javier - 2011
-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation of human capital, focusing on consumption, nutrition, education and … health, including mental health. Three major findings come forward from this work. First, disasters appear to bring … substantial damages to human capital, including death and destruction, and produce deleterious consequences on nutrition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132978
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National and Global Responsibilities for Health
Gostin, Lawrence O.; Ooms, Gorik; Grover, Anand; … - 2010
impoverished areas of the world. Why are health outcomes among the world’s poor so dire after the first decade of the Millennium … Development Goals (MDGs) and despite a quadrupling of international health assistance over the past two decades? We believe that … to support, national and global responsibilities to improve global health. With the goal of a new post-MDG global health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189398
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The aftermath of financial crises : a look on human and social wellbeing
Mohseni-Cheraghlou, Amin - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 87 (2016), pp. 88-106
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606726
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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...
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The ocean and early-childhood mortality and development
Armand, Alex; Taveras, Ivan Kim - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415908
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Methods and options to monitor the cost and affordability of a healthy diet globally : background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022
Herforth, Anna; Venkat, Aishwarya; Yan, Bai; Costlow, Leah - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234481
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Do natural disasters affect human capital? An assessment based on existing empirical evidence
Baez, Javier; de la Fuente, Alejandro; Santos, Indhira - 2010
-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation of human capital, focusing on consumption, nutrition, education and … health, including mental health. Three major findings come forward from this work. First, disasters appear to bring … substantial damages to human capital, including death and destruction, and produce deleterious consequences on nutrition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274681
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(In)equality in education and economic development
Sauer, Petra; Zagler, Martin - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361859
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The gender gap in mathematics : evidence from a middle-income country
Bharadwaj, Prashant; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Hansen, David; … - 2015
Using a large administrative data set from Chile, we find that, on average, boys perform better than girls in mathematics. In this paper, we document several features of their relative performance. First, we note that the gender gap appears to increase with age (it doubles between fourth grade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500668