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Achieving MDGs 4&5: Malawi's Progress on Maternal and Child Health

Cortez, Rafael; Sarker, Intissar; Saadat, Seemeen; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Malawi has made great progress in improving maternal and child health (MCH). Under-five mortality declined from 244 to 71 deaths per 1,000 live births between 1990 and 2012, and maternal mortality declined from 1,100 to 510 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births between 1990 and 2013. This note...

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The Production of Child Health in Kenya: A Structural Model of Birth Weight

Mwabu, Germano - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2008

government in the early 1990s. I find that immunization of the mother against tetanus during pregnancy is strongly associated …

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Robust immunization

Armerin, Fredrik - Institutionen för fastigheter och byggande, Kungliga … - 2013

Using Gateuax dierentials we study how the value of a stream of cash flows is changed as the forward rate curve changes. Using this approach we are able to derive an alternative to the standard method of duration matching, and we argue why it better than ordinary duration matching. We also solve...

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On the Relative Importance of Duration Constraints

Paroush, Jacob; Prisman, Eliezer Z. - In: Management Science 43 (1997) 2, pp. 198-205

satisfaction of a higher order duration constraint. Practitioners who use duration techniques for portfolio immunization must be …

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On new immunization strategies under random shocks on the term structure of interest rates

Kondratiuk-Janyska, Alina; Kaluszka, Marek - In: Operations Research and Decisions 1 (2009), pp. 91-101

We introduce new measures of immunization such as exponential duration referring, in particular, to Fong and Vasièek [7 …

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Socio-economic inequality of immunization coverage in India

Lauridsen, Jørgen; Pradhan, Jalandhar - In: Health Economics Review 1 (2011) 1, pp. 1-6

of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic … applied to quantify the contributions from socio-demographic factors to inequality in immunization coverage. The results … illiterate at the state level is systematically related to 97% of predictable socioeconomic inequalities in full immunization …

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Gender based within-household inequality in immunization status of children: some evidence from South Asian countries

Singh, Ashish - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 2, pp. 911-923

-household inequality in immunization status of children (aged 1-5 years) from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. I find substantial … level of gender based within-household inequality in immunization status (with large inter-country variations) in the … countries studied. Further, I estimate household fixed-effects models for immunization status and find significant difference …

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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation

Janssens, Wendy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

a women’s empowerment programme in rural India on child immunization and school enrolment. The survey covers both …

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The Socio-Economic Determinants Behind Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality

Innovation, Indian Trust for; ITISC, Social Change - eSocialSciences - 2009

A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features accelatrating Infant Mortality rate and Maternal Mortality Rate.

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Immunization Using a Parametric Model of the Term Structure

Bravo, Jorge Miguel Ventura; Silva, Carlos Manuel Pereira da - Departamento de Economia, Universidade de Évora - 2005

In this paper, we develop a new immunization model based on a parametric specification of the term structure of …-order conditions for bond portfolio immunization and conclude that the key to successful protection will be to build up a bond … implement the immunization strategy. Furthermore, we provide useful expressions for the sensitivity of interest rate risk …

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