Abstracts

Financial incentives for health providers and households are increasingly used to improve reproductive, maternal, and child health service coverage in low- and middle-income countries. This study provides a quantitative synthesis …

excludes unofficial draft reports, conference abstracts, comments, op-eds, media briefings, and bachelor’s …

on maternal near miss; (iii) were comments, abstracts, second- ary analysis or surveys of existing studies; …

This paper provides a comprehensive global, regional, and country-level update of: (i) efficient fossil fuel prices to reflect their full private and social costs; and (ii) subsidies implied by mispricing …

and in Annex B. One caveat is that the model abstracts from the possibility of mitigation actions (beyond …

Throughout history, industrialization has been synonymous with development. However, the trend of premature deindustrialization and the spread of automation technologies associated with Industry 4.0 has raised concerns that the development …

commodities and manufactured goods. This point abstracts from a larger literature on spillovers that …

For more than a decade, uncertainty about the future in most parts of the EU has been growing. Many people believe society is in decline and this has given rise …

science bibliographic database Sociological Abstracts during the past three decades, reaching 6,839 …

This paper shows that the optimal sovereign lending contract is state-contingent when a government can default. It provides a theoretical basis for the specification of optimal state-contingent debt instruments (SCDIs) …

the nature a nd economics of the contract and abstracts from non essentia l terms (see a ppendix 4 for …

Chile’s pension system came under close scrutiny in recent years. This paper takes stock of the adequacy of the system and highlights its challenges. Chile’s defined contribution system was quite …

3.7 years for men. 27 The policy analysis abstracts from potential unintended consequences of a change …

Diet-related disease, climate change, and environmental degradation exact an enormous toll on human and planetary health. These challenges can be addressed in part by shifting what we eat and how …

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For the last twenty years, Africa’s growth has been accelerating. Life expectancy is increasing and deaths from communicable diseases are declining. However, rapid urbanization and industrialization bring new challenges. Ambient …

eliminated 671 of these studies through reviewing abstracts and determining that they did not meet our criteria … eliminated 671 of these studies through reviewing abstracts and determining that they did not meet our criteria …

Adoption of health information and communication technologies (“HICT”) has surged over the past two decades. We survey the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical …

found several thousand results and reviewed the abstracts from the 100 most recent articles and the 100 …