Moving from the millennium to the sustainable development goals : lessons and recommendations /

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Imprint:[Singapore] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
©2020
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
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Other authors / contributors:Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa.
ISBN:9789811515569
9811515565
9789811515552
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Includes index.
Other form:Print version: Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa Moving from the Millennium to the Sustainable Development Goals : Lessons and Recommendations Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan US,c2020 9789811515552
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