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Changing the lives of very young children: Evidence from RwandaGlobally, around 250 million children under the age of five do not meet key development milestones, which reduces their ability to reach their full...
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On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governanceCountering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major development challenge. This is so from an ethical perspective and because greater inequality is perceived to be detrimental to key...
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Rehabilitating Health Systems in Post-Conflict SituationsAlthough baseline data for post-conflict situations are frequently unavailable, there is a clear deterioration in the health conditions of populations during and following conflict. Excess mortality and morbidity, displaced populations, and...
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Capturing economic and social value from hydrocarbon gas flaring and venting: evaluation of the issuesAtmospheric emissions urgently need to reduce for natural gas to fulfill its potential role in the energy transition to achieve the Paris Agreement on climate change. This paper establishes the magnitude and trends of flaring and venting in oil and...
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Capturing economic and social value from hydrocarbon gas flaring and venting: solutions and actionsThis second paper on hydrocarbon gas flaring and venting builds on our first, which evaluated the economic and social cost (SCAR) of wasted natural gas. These emissions must be reduced urgently for natural gas to meet its potential as an energy...
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Searching for religious discrimination among childcare workersWe implement a lab-in-the-field experiment among childcare workers in Chandigarh, India, to evaluate discriminatory attitudes of the Hindu workers toward Muslim children. We use a third-party allocation game that controls for selfish payoff...
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Social mobility and human capital in low- and middle-income countriesPart of Book Social Mobility in Developing Countries
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Reorientating the Results Based Agenda: Interviews by Carl-Gustav Lindén
21 March 2013 In foreign aid, results are the buzz word of the day; evaluation, monitoring, and quality control are the means of demonstrating to...
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Multidimensional Poverty: Measurement and Implications: An Interview with James Foster
17 October 2013 James Foster describes the importance of moving beyond income poverty as a way of assessing 'who is poor?' and 'how poor?'...
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Measuring quality of careThe United Nations sustainable development goal (SDG) 3 seeks “to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all and at all ages”. To build healthcare systems that were able to progress towards the millennium development goals, many countries...
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Measuring quality of health-care servicesPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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Improving the quality of hospital care for children by supportive supervisionPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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Variation in quality of primary-care services in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and United Republic of TanzaniaPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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Quality of routine essential care during childbirthPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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Records of medical malpractice litigationPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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A geospatial evaluation of timely access to surgical care in seven countriesPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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Developing global indicators for quality of maternal and newborn carePart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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Community-based approaches for neonatal survivalPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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Maternal and neonatal services in EthiopiaPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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Changing the narratives for patient safetyPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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Agricultural extension, intra-household allocation and malariaCan agricultural development programs improve health-related outcomes? We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of a large-scale agricultural extensionprogram in Uganda to causally identify its effects on malaria. We find that eligibility...
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Income, Income Inequality, and HealthThis paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the earlier...
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A (time) series of unfortunate events: structural change, globalization, and the rise of occupational injuriesThere is a dearth of evidence on the evolution of occupational health in the developing world and on the extent to which it has been influenced by (1) the pattern of structural transformation in these economies and (2) integration with global markets...
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Role of the Household and Community in Determining Child HealthNutritional status at a young age is positively associated with an individual’s total human capital accumulated. Higher levels of human capital are in turn strongly correlated with an individual’s economic and social well-being. Health is one such...
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Will economic growth be sufficient to end global poverty?In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and...
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Building the learning agenda: Spotlight on the Global Learning Laboratory for Quality Universal Health Coverage
Improving the delivery of quality health services is messy! Vast amounts of knowledge and experience is being generated daily. We need to help capture...
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Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Goods Provision in ZambiaThe hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational...
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Fast-Food Consumption and Child Body Mass Index in ChinaThe rapid economic growth experienced within the past two decades in China highly correlates with childhood overweightness. The epidemic has become an issue of grave concern. A principal factor considered to be responsible for the epidemic in the...
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Health and DevelopmentThe papers in this special issue were originally presented at a World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) Conference on Health Equity in 2006. They look beyond the current literature in terms of measures of inequality, indicators...
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Choices for spending government revenueThis paper examines a broad range of opportunities for addressing the pressing human development needs of low-income countries by using new oil, gas, and mineral discoveries. It assesses how much of an impact can be made on the funding gaps for...
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