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The effect of macroeconomic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. This article analyzes the impact of a profound crisis in Peru on infant mortality. It finds an increase of about 2.5 percentage points in the infant mortality rate for children born during the crisis of the late 1980s, which implies that about 17,000 more children died than would have in the absence of the...

In recent years, the Catholic Church has become increasingly concerned about the scourge of unemployment that plagues our society today and the corresponding struggles of workers in this country. A number of pastoral statements and social projects have been launched by church groups in national, regional and local communities as a response to various aspects of the emerging economic crisis. On ...

Substantial international aid is spent reducing the cost of contraception in developing countries, as part of a larger effort to reduce global fertility and increase investment per child worldwide. The importance for fertility behaviors of keeping contraceptive prices low, however, remains unclear. Targeting of subsidies and insufficient price variation have hindered prior attempts to estimate ...

This study examines one of the unintended consequences of ICT investments in developing economies. Although ICT has helped developing countries create links with the global marketplace, which in turn has stimulated economic growth during the good times, it has also synchronized these economies such that the global economic crisis has also affect them. This paper specifically studies the questio...

In this paper we investigate, first, the characteristics of the firms that reduced their ICT investment due to the 2008 crisis, focusing on the firms’ ICT characteristics in terms of the ICT, budget, skills and applications used. The analysis of the ICT characteristics that may influence the likelihood of having reduced ICT investment as a consequence of the crisis is primarily explorative, thu...

In light of the recent economic crisis, a particular emphasis has been placed on the measurement of productivity and performance of agricultural sectors worldwide. This article deals with the assessment of the performance of the Czech agricultural sector using three measures: multifactor productivity, economic value added, and financial performance. The authors also compared the development of ...

Fertility has unanimously declined across the entire post-communist region. This study explores the variation in fertility trends over time among these countries and assesses to what degree three explanations are applicable: second demographic transition (SDT), postponement transition (PPT) or reaction to the economic crisis. Moreover, on the basis of SDT and PPT theoretical tenets, as well as ...