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line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with … indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries regarding the MDGs. Our results show that donors differ not only in … aid allocation is conducive to achieving more specific MDGs such as all children completing a full course of primary …
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factors that explain part of the anomaly of African growth processes. The MDGs reflect the specifics of African growth …
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This paper develops a bio-economic Malthusian growth model. By integrating recent research on allometric scaling, energy consumption, and ontogenetic growth we provide a model where subsistence consumption is endogenously linked to body mass and fertility. The theory admits a two-dimensional...
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offspring (quantity) and amount of nutrition per child (quality). This leads to a theory of pre-industrial growth where body …
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nutrition impaired numeracy in industrializing England, 1780-1850. Numeracy declined markedly among those born during the war … cognitive skills. Nutrition during early development mattered for labor market outcomes: individuals born in periods or …
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. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …
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