Documents et rapports
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Population, poverty, and sustainable development : a review of the evidence (anglais)
There is a very large but scattered literature debating the economic implications of high fertility. This paper reviews the literature on three themes: (a) Does high fertility affect low-income countries'...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5719 Date du document: 1 juin 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Das Gupta,Monica,Bongaarts,John,Cleland, John
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China's marriage market and upcoming challenges for elderly men (anglais)
Fertility decline has fueled a sharp increase in the proportion of 'missing girls' in China, so an increasing share of males will fail to marry, and will face old age without the support normally provided...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5351 Date du document: 1 juin 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Das Gupta,Monica,Ebenstein,Avraham Yehuda,Sharygin, Ethan Jennings
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Family systems, political systems, and Asia's 'missing girls' : the construction of son preference and its unraveling (anglais)
Son preference is known to be found in certain types of cultures, that is patrilineal cultures. But what explains the fact that China, South Korea, and Northwest India manifest such extreme child sex ratios...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5148 Date du document: 1 décembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Das Gupta,Monica
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How might India's public health systems be strengthened ? (anglais)
The central government’s policies, though well-intentioned, have inadvertently de-emphasized environmental health and other preventive public health services in India since the 1950s, when it was decided...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5140 Date du document: 1 novembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Das Gupta,Monica,Datta,Biplab Kumar,Shukla,Rajendra Shankar,Somanathan,Trikkur V.
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How to improve public health systems : lessons from Tamil Nadu (anglais)
Public health systems in India have weakened since the 1950s, after central decisions to amalgamate the medical and public health services, and to focus public health work largely on single-issue programs...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5073 Date du document: 1 octobre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Das Gupta,Monica,Desikachari,B. R.,Somanathan,Trikkur V.,Padmanaban, P.
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How can donors help build global public goods in health ? (anglais)
Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable disease control in the developed world. These mostly non-clinical services generate "pure...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4907 Date du document: 1 avril 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Das Gupta,Monica,Gostin,Lawrence
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Is there an incipient turnaround in Asia's "missing girls" phenomenon ? (anglais)
The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much attention amongst researchers and policy-makers. An encouraging trend was suggested...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4846 Date du document: 1 février 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Das Gupta,Monica,Chung, Woojin,Li.,Shuzhuo
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The political economy of village sanitation in south India : capture or poor information ? (anglais)
Despite efforts to mandate and finance local governments' provision of environmental sanitation services, outcomes remain poor in the villages surveyed in the four South Indian states. The analysis indicates...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4802 Date du document: 1 décembre 2008 Auteur: Ban,Radu,Das Gupta,Monica,Rao,Vijayendra