While undernutrition among children is very pervasive both in Sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia, child mortality is rather low in South Asia. In contrast to that Sub-Saharan African countries suer by far the worst from high rates of child mortality. This dierent pattern of child mortality and...

In Burkina Faso, the analysis of the impact of the regional urbanization in terms of child malnutrition of less than 5 years, based on a spatial econometrics approach according tothe administrative division of the 30 provinces, using the demographic and health surveys of 1992-93 and 1998-99,...

Une analyse comparative pour trois pays d'Afrique – Burkina Faso, Cameroun et Togo –des facteurs de l'inégalité socio-économique relative du retard de croissance des enfants, ainsi que des variations de ces disparités dans le temps, est proposée. Cette investigation, mobilisant pour...

In Burkina Faso, the analysis of the consequences of the urbanization in terms of poverty, based on a spatio-time-series approach, organized in function, on the one hand, information of the household surveys – 1994-95 and 1998 –, and the demographic and health surveys – 1992-93 and 1998-99...

L’étude propose de contribuer au débat sur la croissance pro-pauvres au Burkina Faso, et présente une nouvelle évidence empirique, fondée sur une approche ex ante du bien-être à partir de données transversales, permettant de lever partiellement l’« axiome d’anonymat » –...

Based on the demographic and health surveys of Burkina Faso of 1992-93 and 1998-99, present study proposes to analyse the importance and evolution of the inequality of child mortality, and the relations which prevail between the latter and poverty. Firstly, there is an opposite relation between...

The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being. A consistent pattern across countries is that women report lower levels of mental well-being, as measured by the GHQ. This paper applies decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to...

Fondée sur les données des enquêtes démographique et de santé, et des conditions de vie des ménages, effectuées en 2003, la présente étude, examinant les facteurs de la prévalence du VIH au Burkina Faso, conduit à deux conclusions. Premièrement, la lutte contre la pauvreté n’est...

Based on the demographic and health survey of the Comoros of 1996, the analysis of the determinants of child mortality arrives to three conclusions. Firstly, several parameters influence the fruitfulness of modeling the child health. On the one hand, differentiated analytical options –...

In cross-country/cross-region multilateral consumer price level comparisons, differences in the mix of food items consumed in individual countries pose a major problem. Comparison of the level of prices of food items in two countries will be difficult, if the sets of food items consumed in the...