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Husain, Muhammad Jami - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 3025-3035

Until recently the literature has found evidence of a positive, significant, and sizable influence of life expectancy on economic growth. This view has been challenged by Acemoglu and Johnson (2007). They find no evidence that the large exogenous increase in life expectancy led to a significant...

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Verification of Performance in Results-Based Financing Programs: The Case of Plan Nacer in Argentina

Perazzo, Alfredo; Josephson, Erik - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Verification in results-based financing (RBF) mechanisms is one of the key differentiators between it and related health financing structures such as social health insurance. Verifying that providers have achieved reported performance in RBF mechanisms is considered a crucial part of program...

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Bhutan: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance

El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Bhutan is a small landlocked country in the Himalayas between China and India. Poverty reduction has been rapid from about 23 percent in 2007 to 12-13 percent in 2012. Gender equality and women's empowerment are important determinants of reproductive health. Contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR)...

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Bond portfolio duration, cash flow dispersion and convexity

Smith, Donald J. - In: Applied economics letters 17 (2010) 16/18, pp. 1669-1672

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Structure of spot rates and duration hedging

Lin, Bing-huei; Wang, Jr-yan; Tai, Shih-wen - In: Asia-Pacific journal of financial studies 40 (2011) 4, pp. 550-576

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Socio-economic inequality of immunization coverage in India

Lauridsen, Jørgen; Pradhan, Jalandhar - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 11, 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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