ABSTRACT Globally, the impact of pollution on health, human development, and economic productivity is significant, disproportionately affecting economically disadvantaged individuals and people of…

Social norms influence many dimensions of women’s lives and women’s assumptions about male partners’ pronatalism can have important associations with fertility behaviours. Using data on married…

Background: It is evident that public health education interventions to promote the use of condoms against HIV infections in Ghana have yielded modest results. However, existing studies in the field…

This study examines the asymmetric effects of differential sectoral growth on unemployment in Uganda, considering both the size and composition effect of sectoral growth. The results of this study...

Sectors are the engines of economic growth in any economy making inter-sectoral linkages the most significant target for development practitioners and policymakers. This study examines and ascertains...

As bilateral and multilateral donors transition the role of funding HIV programs to the governments of low- and middle-income countries, pressure to manage scarce resources can mount. Yet many...

Resumen Este capítulo da una perspectiva que mezcla la economía, la sociología y la psicología. A lo cual también encontraremos la sección 1, presentaremos los detalles del estudio; en la 2, los…

Key findings While commercialisation has contributed towards increasing agricultural income, its impact on nutrition has been adverse as neither production nor the accrued income resulted in nutrition…

The authors examine whether high personal discount rates help explain why and which households in developing countries under-invest in seemingly low-cost options to avert environmental health threats…

In the summer of 2005, we interviewed 996 randomly selected respondents in Beira, Mozambique concerning their willingness and ability to pay for cholera vaccine for themselves and for other household…