Data from the National Socio-economic Survey for 1978 are used to give a profile of poverty in Indonesia. Households are classified into the poor and nonpoor categories according to their levels of per...
This paper reports on the analysis of data from Nepal. The farm households surveyed were chosen so that about half were in a region exposed to the newly-introduced training-and-visit (T & V) extension...
This paper attempts first to analyze how various sociocultural, economic, and demographic factors affect the extent and structure of female economic participation in the large subsistence economy of rural...
This paper highlights the complexity in appraising and evaluating the impact of a health project. The two major disciplines involved are health and economics. Measuring health and its progress--is essential...
Narangwal is more than the name of a village in Punjab, India. It has become associated with one of the best known and well documented field experiments in health care and family planning anywhere in the...
The Black majority government of Zimbabwe, coming to power after a long struggle for independence, has announced its strong commitment to social services to benefit the vast majority of the population...
This report analyzes the cost of a pilot project in Senegal, that introduces the dominant local language, Wolof, as teaching language in the first years of primary education instead of French, and uses...
The factors that influence the persistent and negative relation between number of children and allocation of resources to investment in those children are discussed. Data used for the analysis are a 1967...
In recent times, a number of developing countries have experienced a decline in fertility making it possible to study the factors inducing such decline. This subject constitutes the core of a continuing...