For the past decade, South Asian governments have been investing heavily to achieve the education millennium development goals (MDGs). The region has also made great progress in enrolling girls in both...
Disparities in school outcomes are an important source of income inequality, especially in rapidly developing and developed economies where the returns to schooling have been increasing. It is therefore...
While Bangladesh has made impressive gains in reducing child malnutrition over the last decade, levels of malnutrition remain unusually high in comparison to other developing countries, and relative to...
Considerable uncertainty remains about the human impact of macroeconomic adjustment. Analysis of the impact of adjustment on the poor and on the social sectors is difficult because it involves evaluating...
Introduction: poverty and adjustment in the 1980s. Poverty in Eastern Europe in the years of crisis, 1978 to 1987: Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. Macroeconomic adjustment and poverty in selected industrial...
Understanding the determinants of nutrient intake and the influence of nutrition on performance is critical in designing policies to alleviate hunger and malnutrition. A series of studies undertaken by...
Agricultural incentives in developing countries: measuring the effect of sectoral and economywide policies. Inflationary rigidities and orthodox stabilization policies: lessons from Latin America. Nutrients:...