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Higher Child Marriage Rates Associated with Higher Maternal and Infant Mortality

UC San Diego Department of Medicine News wrote 1 week ago: Countries in which girls are commonly married before the age of 18 have significantly higher rates o … more →

Tags: global medicine, global public health, Internal Medicine Specialties, Research, access to health care, adolescent pregnancy, anita raj, child marriage rates, Department of Medicine

Changing indicators to change the world: evidence from the ground.

Andrea Rigon wrote 1 month ago: Why the way we measure progress on education matters. The building of a school next to an IDP camp i … more →

Tags: Aid/Power/Governance, post-MDGs, Amartya Sen, Bolivia, Education, Government, HLP, Millennium Development Goals, Nobel Prize

(Video) Fiji's Other development indicators. National workshops....

Narsey on Fiji wrote 6 months ago: Fiji’s Other national development indicators on which the 2008-09 (and the 2002-03) HIES give … more →

Tags: a2 2012, Education, housing, Heath, TV, Computers, Mobiles, Fijian deprivation, Transport

Economic growth, Does it really matter?

openupthedebate wrote 1 year ago: Economic change We recently found out that again we find ourselves in a period of sustained economic … more →

Tags: Politics, Wellbeing, measuring happiness, Economy, new economics, happiness, development, recession, Double Dip

The purpose of economic growth

Richa wrote 2 years ago: Many of us who follow development space are more or less familiar with China’s lead over India in de … more →

Tags: Economics and Public Policy

Erstwhile 'State' of Joy

aburman wrote 3 years ago: After having spent five years as a student in Kolkata (West Bengal), I revisited the city after a ye … more →

Tags: Federalism and Centre-State Relations, Public Administration and Policy, Parliament, Education, panchayats, west bengal, poverty, Local Government, financial autonomy

Perspective – Consumer Spending

thenewcurrency wrote 3 years ago: Hippocrates: “Everything in excess is opposed to nature.” Aristotle: “True happiness flows from the … more →

Tags: United Nations, Millennium Development Goals, Bertrand Russell, 1998 Human Development Report, World Bank, global consumer spending, Global Advertising Expenditures, Tourism Expenditures, Global Bottled Water Expenditures


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