The Reduction of Child Mortality in the Middle East and North Africa : A Success Story
Although child mortality rates have declined all across the developing world over the past 40 years, they have declined the most in the Middle East and North Africa region. This paper documents this remarkable experience and shows that it is broad...
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okr-10986-203372021-04-23T14:03:55Z The Reduction of Child Mortality in the Middle East and North Africa : A Success Story Iqbal, Farrukh Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf ACCESS TO FOOD ACCESS TO HEALTH FACILITIES BABY BASIC HEALTH BASIC HEALTH CARE BREASTFEEDING CARE PROVISION CHANCE OF SURVIVAL CHILD HEALTH CHILD MORTALITY CHILD MORTALITY RATE CHILD MORTALITY RATES CHILD SURVIVAL DEATHS OF CHILDREN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING REGIONS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISSEMINATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT FEMALE EDUCATION FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD DEFICIT FOOD INTAKE HEALTH CARE HEALTH FACILITIES HEALTH FACILITY HEALTH INTERVENTIONS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SYSTEMS HIGH CHILD MORTALITY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RIGHT INCOME GROWTH INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANTS LEVEL OF MORTALITY LEVELS OF INFANT LEVELS OF MORTALITY LIVE BIRTHS MEDICAL SERVICES MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MORTALITY DECLINE MORTALITY LEVELS MORTALITY RATE MORTALITY REDUCTION NUMBER OF DEATHS NUTRITION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH REGIONAL AVERAGES REGIONAL DATA REGIONAL DUMMIES REGIONAL DUMMY REGIONAL PERFORMANCE REGIONAL SAMPLE RESPECT RURAL SETTINGS SANITATION SCHOOLING SOCIAL SCIENCE URBAN POPULATION URBANIZATION VIRGIN WELLNESS Although child mortality rates have declined all across the developing world over the past 40 years, they have declined the most in the Middle East and North Africa region. This paper documents this remarkable experience and shows that it is broad based in the sense that all countries in the Middle East and North Africa experienced significant declines in child mortality over this period and each country did better than most of its comparators. In looking for the sources of the region s performance edge, the paper confirms the importance of such determinants of child mortality as income growth, education stock, public spending on health, urbanization, and food sufficiency. In addition, the paper establishes that the initial level of mortality has a substantial influence on the pace of subsequent child mortality decline. Of these factors, food sufficiency status is found to contribute to the region s performance edge over all developing regions, while the other factors are found to matter to varying degrees in selected pairwise regional comparisons. 2014-10-02T19:58:32Z 2014-10-02T19:58:32Z 2014-09 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/09/20174120/reduction-child-mortality-middle-east-north-africa-success-story http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20337 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7023 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Middle East and North Africa North Africa Middle East |
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ACCESS TO FOOD ACCESS TO HEALTH FACILITIES BABY BASIC HEALTH BASIC HEALTH CARE BREASTFEEDING CARE PROVISION CHANCE OF SURVIVAL CHILD HEALTH CHILD MORTALITY CHILD MORTALITY RATE CHILD MORTALITY RATES CHILD SURVIVAL DEATHS OF CHILDREN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING REGIONS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISSEMINATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT FEMALE EDUCATION FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD DEFICIT FOOD INTAKE HEALTH CARE HEALTH FACILITIES HEALTH FACILITY HEALTH INTERVENTIONS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SYSTEMS HIGH CHILD MORTALITY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RIGHT INCOME GROWTH INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANTS LEVEL OF MORTALITY LEVELS OF INFANT LEVELS OF MORTALITY LIVE BIRTHS MEDICAL SERVICES MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MORTALITY DECLINE MORTALITY LEVELS MORTALITY RATE MORTALITY REDUCTION NUMBER OF DEATHS NUTRITION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH REGIONAL AVERAGES REGIONAL DATA REGIONAL DUMMIES REGIONAL DUMMY REGIONAL PERFORMANCE REGIONAL SAMPLE RESPECT RURAL SETTINGS SANITATION SCHOOLING SOCIAL SCIENCE URBAN POPULATION URBANIZATION VIRGIN WELLNESS |
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ACCESS TO FOOD ACCESS TO HEALTH FACILITIES BABY BASIC HEALTH BASIC HEALTH CARE BREASTFEEDING CARE PROVISION CHANCE OF SURVIVAL CHILD HEALTH CHILD MORTALITY CHILD MORTALITY RATE CHILD MORTALITY RATES CHILD SURVIVAL DEATHS OF CHILDREN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING REGIONS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISSEMINATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT FEMALE EDUCATION FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD DEFICIT FOOD INTAKE HEALTH CARE HEALTH FACILITIES HEALTH FACILITY HEALTH INTERVENTIONS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SYSTEMS HIGH CHILD MORTALITY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RIGHT INCOME GROWTH INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANTS LEVEL OF MORTALITY LEVELS OF INFANT LEVELS OF MORTALITY LIVE BIRTHS MEDICAL SERVICES MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MORTALITY DECLINE MORTALITY LEVELS MORTALITY RATE MORTALITY REDUCTION NUMBER OF DEATHS NUTRITION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH REGIONAL AVERAGES REGIONAL DATA REGIONAL DUMMIES REGIONAL DUMMY REGIONAL PERFORMANCE REGIONAL SAMPLE RESPECT RURAL SETTINGS SANITATION SCHOOLING SOCIAL SCIENCE URBAN POPULATION URBANIZATION VIRGIN WELLNESS Iqbal, Farrukh Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf The Reduction of Child Mortality in the Middle East and North Africa : A Success Story |
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Although child mortality rates have
declined all across the developing world over the past 40
years, they have declined the most in the Middle East and
North Africa region. This paper documents this remarkable
experience and shows that it is broad based in the sense
that all countries in the Middle East and North Africa
experienced significant declines in child mortality over
this period and each country did better than most of its
comparators. In looking for the sources of the region s
performance edge, the paper confirms the importance of such
determinants of child mortality as income growth, education
stock, public spending on health, urbanization, and food
sufficiency. In addition, the paper establishes that the
initial level of mortality has a substantial influence on
the pace of subsequent child mortality decline. Of these
factors, food sufficiency status is found to contribute to
the region s performance edge over all developing regions,
while the other factors are found to matter to varying
degrees in selected pairwise regional comparisons. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Iqbal, Farrukh Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf |
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Iqbal, Farrukh Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf |
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Iqbal, Farrukh |
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The Reduction of Child Mortality in the Middle East and North Africa : A Success Story |
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The Reduction of Child Mortality in the Middle East and North Africa : A Success Story |
| title_full |
The Reduction of Child Mortality in the Middle East and North Africa : A Success Story |
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The Reduction of Child Mortality in the Middle East and North Africa : A Success Story |
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The Reduction of Child Mortality in the Middle East and North Africa : A Success Story |
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reduction of child mortality in the middle east and north africa : a success story |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/09/20174120/reduction-child-mortality-middle-east-north-africa-success-story http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20337 |
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