Economic crisis, structural adjustment, and health in Africa (English)

This report applied two types of analysis to two types of data to try to quantify any short-term effect economic criswas and adjustment might have had on child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. First the aggregate data for ten countries covered by the Demographic and Health Surveys project was analyzed. Then an elaborate data set for Cote d'Ivoire collected in the mid-1980s was analyzed. Both analyses used time-period dummy variables to identify the...

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Diop, Francois;

Hill, Kenneth;

Sirageldin, Ismail;
Document Date
1991/09/30
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS766
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Africa,
Region
Africa,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Economic crisis, structural adjustment, and health in Africa
Keywords
Child Health

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Diop, Francois; Hill, Kenneth; Sirageldin, Ismail.

Economic crisis, structural adjustment, and health in Africa (English). Policy, Research, and External Affairs working paper|no. WPS 766. Population, health, and nutrition Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/229941468768022788

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