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Child health in rural Colombia: determinants and policy interventions
2003This paper examines the determinants of child health in a sample of poor Colombian children living in small municipalities. The authors want to understand how education interacts with other factors and policies in explaining child health.DocumentRole of mothers in alleviating child malnutrition: evidence from Sri Lanka
Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2003This paper begins with the assertion that having a productive workforce depends first on having healthy children, who will grow into workers. The authors argue that Sri Lanka faces a serious problem of malnourished children, which will have knock-on effects for Sri Lanka's growth.DocumentCoping with hunger and poverty in Ethiopia
ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2004This paper is an examination of how people in Ethiopia are faring, twenty years after a major famine. The paper is comprised of interviews with individuals in different communities, interwoven with the authors’ conclusions and narrative.DocumentWhat does the State do for Indian women?
Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004The Indian state has always had policies specially targeted at women, such as family planning policies which included measures to reduce maternal mortality, literacy and education policies, and help for widows, tribals, Muslim women, and working women.DocumentWomen and work mobility: some disquieting evidences from the Indian data
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2004This paper examines the perpetuation of sex segregation of jobs, in the context of globalisation in the 1990s in India. The author finds:horizontal segregation indicated by the index of dissimilarity has declined during the period 1987-88 and 1993-94 in urban areas but has increased slightly in rural areas.DocumentThe rise or fall of world inequality: a spurious controversy?
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004This paper explores the divergence of opinion on whether inequality in the world is rising or falling. The authors here attempt to pinpoint what drives the two extreme positions apart.DocumentHealth infrastructure and child health in rural Peru
2004This paper examines the effect of expanding health infrastructure on child nutrition in rural Peru.DocumentHow are workers with family responsibilities faring in the workplace?
International Labour Organization, 2004This paper looks at how discrimination associated with family responsibilities can lead to reduced incomes and a vicious cycle of poverty. Based on interviews of workers in Botswana, Honduras, Mexico, the Russian Federation, the United States, and Vietnam, this paper examines how family responsibilities affect the ability of parents to get jobs, keep jobs and earn a living wage.DocumentIncome risk and welfare status of rural households in Nigeria: Ekiti state as a test case
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004This paper examines the impact of income risk on the level of well-being of rural households in Nigeria. Income risk is defined as the risks associated with variability in income; well-being is defined in terms of the level of utility reached by a given individual. This level is a function of goods and services that the individual consumes.