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There is strong evidence that socio-cultural factors largelydetermine what is seen as competent behaviour. Within westernhigh income countries, driven by the values of utilitarianindividualism, the construct of intellect...

Breast cancer has not been sufficiently integrated into broader efforts either on maternal and child, or reproductive health and this presents an opportunity to strengthen early detection. The analysis is based on global...

The cervical cancer screening programs (CCSP) have not beenvery efficient in the developing countries. This explains the needto foster changes on policies, standards, quality control mechanisms,evaluation and integration...

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Raising tobacco taxes can have an income distributional impacton the population. Since lower socio-economic groupsusually smoke more, they also contribute more to total cigarettetax collection. Thus, those who can afford...

This paper studies the effect of welfare programs on work incentives and the labor supply of adults in developing countries. The document builds on the experimental evaluations of three programs implemented in rural area...

The Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI) applied an evidence-based consensus review process to develop guidelines for breast cancer early detection, diagnosis, and treatment in low- and middle-income countries (LMCs) i...

Agricultural research institutions in most of developing countries operate with limited budgets,facing situations of sub utilization of human resources. Government economic policies appliedby these countries have lead to...

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to estimate the prevalence of diabetes and the number of people of all ages with diabetes for years 2000 and 2030. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Data on diabetes prevalence by age and...

The aim of the present study was to determine the antiallergic and anti-inflammatory properties of the methanolic extract from stem bark of Ailanthus excelsa Roxb (AEME). Herbal medicines are assuming greater importance ...

Empirical studies attempting at testing dualism in developing countries often rely on an ex-ante definition of the primary and the secondary sector. Many times this methodology causes biases in the estimation due to samp...

Los cambios en la estructura salarial de un país es un área importante de investigación. Sin embargo, la evidencia empírica sobre la evolución de salarios en los países en desarrollo aún es escasa. En este artícu...

Minimum wage legislation is potentially a powerful policy tool to help alleviate poverty in developing countries. This is especially the case when the detrimental employment effects are small. However, of critical import...

Economic reforms involving the agricultural sector, such as those being proposed in the WTO Doha Round negotiations, will affect household behavior in developing countries. This paper proposes an empirical methodology to...

La informalidad es un hecho en muchos países en desarrollo. En América Latina, el 50 por ciento de los trabajadores asalariados trabajan en empleos informales. Hay tres hecho estilizados que caracterizan la informalida...

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on pensions and saving by studying the influence of funded pension systems on the gross national saving rate using a sample of 48 developed and developing countries over...

The failure of the Fifth Ministerial Conference in Cancun2 was not only a setback for the Doha Round, but also for the World Trade Organization’s efforts to enhance international trade as means to growth and developmen...

We study the relationship between exchange rate regimes and economic growth for a sample of 154 countries over the post-Bretton Woods period (1974-1999), using a new de facto classification of regimes based on the actual...

Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital Robert D. Putnam (bio) Many students of the new democracies that have emerged over the past decade and a half have emphasized the importance of a strong and active civi...

The global burden of cancer continues to increase largely because of the aging and growth of the world population alongside an increasing adoption of cancer-causing behaviors, particularly smoking, in economically develo...

BACKGROUND: Global and regional projections of mortality and burden of disease by cause for the years 2000, 2010, and 2030 were published by Murray and Lopez in 1996 as part of the Global Burden of Disease project. These...

The European Union (EU) is actively working to combat climate change and promote sustainable development by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The transport sector, a major contributor of GHG emissions, was at the ...