Although child mortality rates have declined all across the developing world over the past 40 years, they have declined the most in the Middle East and North Africa region. This paper documents this remarkable experience and shows that it is broad based in the sense that all countries in the Middle East and North Africa experienced significant declines in child mortality over this period and each country did better than most of its comparators. In looking for the sources of the regions performance edge, the paper confirms the importance of such determinants of child mortality as income growth, education stock, public spending on health, urbanization, and food sufficiency. In addition, the paper establishes that the initial level of mortality has a substantial influence on the pace of subsequent child mortality decline. Of these factors, food sufficiency status is found to contribute to the regions performance edge over all developing regions, while the other factors are found to matter to varying degrees in selected pairwise regional comparisons.
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2014/09/01
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Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas
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WPS7023
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Nº do volume
1
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1
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Data de divulgação
2014/09/01
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Disclosed
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Nome do documento
The reduction of child mortality in the Middle East and North Africa : a success story
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Child Mortality;live birth;number of deaths of children;child mortality rate;infant and child mortality;impact of public spending;ratio of public spending;per capita growth rate;turks and caicos islands;food and agriculture organization;access to health facility;years of schooling;reducing child mortality;level of undernourishment;access to food;high child mortality;list of countries;public health challenge;health care facility;health care facilities;high population density;public health intervention;economies of scale;channels of transmission;food subsidy program;chance of survival;basic health care;regression results;total public spending;basic food item;
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