The latter half of the 1990s witnessed a burgeoning number of initiatives involving collaboration between the corporate and public sectors with the purpose of overcoming market and public "failures" o...
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Health inequalities are prominent in the policy agenda. Average achievement is no longer considered a sufficient indicator of a country'sperformance on health; rather, the distribution of health in th...
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It provides introduction to concepts of gender and health and outlines the different ways in which gender affects health a gender analysis framework for conducting detailed situation specific gender a...
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\"To examine trends in mortality among babies registered solely by their mother (lone mothers) and to compare these with trends in infant mortality for couple registrations overall and couple registra...
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...An equity driven approach in health policy making entails a wide vision of the determinants of population health. First it requires considering the broader policy action required to promote health ...
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Income of the poor rises one-for-one with overall growth. This general relationship between income of the bottom fifth of the population and per capita GDP holds in a sample of 80 countries covering f...
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The ethnic concentration of poverty and inequality is increasingly being recognized in the development literature. In this paper, studies from six Latin American countries that estimate the costs to a...
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It presents speculation about the mechanisms that could cause malaria to have such a large impact on the economy, such as foreing investment and economic networks within country. Document in PDF forma...
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women are critical dimensions of the United Nations Development Programme's efforts to help meet the overarching goal of halving world poverty by 2015. The laun...
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This site introduces the Indigenous Peoples (IP) Programme and attempts to provide support for indigenous peoples' development initiatives by focusing on the aspirations, the knowledge and the experti...
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