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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 potential...
Social mobility Human capital Cognitive abilityWorking Paper
Health, development, and institutional factors: The Mozambique caseThe central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in Mozambique...
State traditional medicine Mozambique
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Inequality of opportunity in child health in Sudan: Across-region studyThis study aims to examine the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years of age, using the Sudanese 2014 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey...
Health Children Inequality of opportunitiesWorking Paper
Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countriesParental human capital and endowments may affect children’s human capital, which in turn may affect children’s earning and occupations and thus affect social mobility...
Social mobility Human capital Cognitive abilityJournal Article
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...
Administrative law Agriculture Economic developmentBook Chapter
Excess female mortality in AfricaFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Missing women Mortality GenderBook Chapter
Choices for spending government revenue: New African oil, gas, and mining economiesFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Extractives Education RevenueWorking Paper
Labour migration in Indonesia and the health of children left behindEconomic research on labour migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the remittances of overseas migrant labour in the sending country’s economy...
Health Labour migration ChildrenPolicy Brief
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Income generation and malaria in UgandaSeveral large-scale efforts have been made to combat malaria in the last decade under the Millennium Development Goals, and while these have led to a rapid decline in cases, malaria continues to exact a heavy toll on sub-Saharan Africa, both in terms...
Administrative law Agriculture Economic developmentJournal Article
Improving water, sanitation and hygiene in health-care facilities, LiberiaProblem The lack of proper water and sanitation infrastructures and poor hygiene practices in health-care facilities reduces facilities’ preparedness and response to disease outbreaks and decreases the communities’ trust in the health ser...
Health SDG3 Universal Health CoverageJournal Article
Observations of infection prevention and control practices in primary health care, KenyaObjective To assess compliance with infection prevention and control practices in primary health care in Kenya...
Health SDG3 Universal Health CoverageJournal Article
Implementation research to improve quality of maternal and newborn health care, MalawiObjective To evaluate the impact of a performance-based financing scheme on maternal and neonatal health service quality in Malawi...
Health SDG3 Universal Health CoverageWorking Paper
Choices for spending government revenue: New African oil, gas, and mining economiesThis 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...
Extractives Education RevenuePolicy seminar
Policy Seminar - Launch of WHO Bulletin theme issue 'Measuring quality of care'