Moving from the millennium to the sustainable development goals : lessons and recommendations /
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Imprint: | [Singapore] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020] ©2020 |
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Description: | 1 online resource (375 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12605207 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1: Hitting the Right Targets: Understanding What Works in the Development Process
- 1 Background
- 2 Summary of Chapters in the Book
- References
- 2: Financial Inclusion and Poverty: Micro-level Evidence from Nigeria
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Data and Variables
- Poverty
- Financial Inclusion
- Covariates
- 3 Empirical Specification and Methods
- 4 Empirical Results
- Robustness Checks
- 5 Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- 3: Adoption of Mobile Money for Healthcare Utilization and Spending in Rural Ghana
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Literature Review
- Mobile Phone Penetration
- Mobile Money Adoption and Healthcare
- 3 Data
- Measurement of Healthcare Utilization
- Health Spending
- Empirical Model Specification and Estimation Technique
- 4 Analysis and Discussion
- 5 Conclusion and Recommendation
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- References
- 4: Mobile Money and Women's Decision-Making Power in India
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Data and Empirical Method
- 3 Empirical Results
- 4 Discussion and Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- 5: Fertility Gap and Child Nutrition: Evidence from India
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Literature
- 3 Data and Estimation Strategy
- Data and Variables
- Empirical Strategy
- 4 Empirical Results
- Summary Statistics
- Multi-variate Regression Results
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- 6: Sexual Orientation and Sexually Transmissible Infections (STIs)
- 1 Introduction and Background
- 2 Data
- 3 Empirical Specification and Methods
- 4 Results and Discussions
- Robustness and Sensitivity Checks
- 5 Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- 7: Trade-led Growth: A Path to Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Data and Methodology
- Data
- The Model
- Estimation Methodology
- Unit Root Tests and Structural Breaks
- Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Model
- Testing the Balance of Payments Constrained Growth Model
- 3 Results
- Unit Root Tests
- Import Demand Function
- Comparing the Estimated Income Elasticity of Demand with Those from Other Studies
- Export Demand Function
- The Balance of Payments Constrained Growth
- Formally Testing the Balance of Payments Constrained Growth Model
- 4 Concluding Remarks
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2: Details of the Model
- Economic Propositions
- References
- 8: Ethnic Diversity and Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Data
- 3 Methodology
- Endogeneity
- 4 Results
- Further Analysis
- 5 Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- 9: Foreign Aid and Development Goals: Revisiting the Evidence
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Brief Overview of Related Literature
- 3 Data and Methods
- 4 Results
- 5 Conclusion
- Appendix
- References