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Más libros, menos balas; más vacunas, menos perdigones: ¿cómo vigilar el gasto social en infancia?
Vásquez, Enrique - In: Manual global por la infancia. Cómo medir indicadores …
El cuarto capítulo, trata sobre la medición del gasto público social orientado a la infancia para países en desarrollo …
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DETERMINANTES DE LA POBREZA EN COLOMBIA, 1996-2004
Núñez, Jairo; Ramírez, Juan Carlos; Cuesta, Laura - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2005
A partir de las nuevas líneas de pobreza y nuevos ajustes a las encuestas de hogares que ha realizado la Misión para el Diseño de una Estrategia de Reducción de la Pobreza y la Desigualdad (MERPD), se estiman y analizan los determinantes de los cambios en la pobreza en dos períodos:...
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Manual global por la infancia. Cómo medir indicadores socioeconómicos y el gasto público social focalizado en niñas y niños de países en desarrollo
Vásquez, Enrique (contributor) - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del …
La lucha por los derechos de la infancia y la adolescencia en el mundo ha dado pasos muy significativos. Hoy en día … respetar los derechos de niñas y niños. Sin embargo, las cifras sobre la vulnerabilidad de la infancia de los países menos … presenta como referencia ejemplos concretos de indicadores socioeconómicos sobre la infancia de países de África, Asia y …
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The socioeconomic gradient of obesity in Ireland
Madden, David - 2010
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for men and women. We finder higher concentration indices for women than for men, but we also find that concentration indices fell between 2002 and 2007. However this appears to be...
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The impact of an economic boom on the level and distribution of well-being: Ireland, 1994 - 2001
Madden, David - 2010
The impact of increased affluence on life satisfaction is a matter of some controversy. This paper examines the impact of the recent economic boom in Ireland upon the level and distribution of various domains of well-being. There is evidence of a substantial increase in life satisfaction in the...
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Gender differences in mental well-being: A decomposition analysis
Madden, David - 2008
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...
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Health and income poverty in Ireland, 2003 - 2006
Madden, David - 2008
Recent advances in the measurement of bi-dimensional poverty are applied to a measure of poverty which incorporates income and health poverty. The correlation between income and poverty is examined using the Receiver Operating Characteristics curve. Following from this unidimensional and...
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A profile of obesity in Ireland, 2002 - 2007
Madden, David - 2010
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we take a number of approaches to profile the change in obesity in Ireland over the 2002-2007 period. There is no evidence of either first or second order stochastic dominance between the two years. There is evidence that obesity and overweight...
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Body Mass Index and the measurement of obesity
Madden, David - 2006
This paper proposes a new method of measuring obesity using Body Mass Index (BMI) data. Conventional measures which simply count the number of individuals with BMI in excess of an upper limit ignore the extent by which individuals exceed BMI limits and also the increased risk ratios for various...
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A Multilevel Approach to Explain Child Mortality and Undernutrition in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Misselhorn, Mark; Harttgen, Kenneth - 2006
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 suffer by far the worst from high rates of child mortality. This different pattern of child mortality...
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