Democracy, Dictatorship, and Infant Mortality Revisited

Navia, Patricio; Zweifel, Thomas D.

doi:10.1353/jod.2003.0059

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“…This incentive, coupled with the presence of a free press, suggests that food shortages become matters of public debate and issues requiring urgent action. Navia and Zweifel [2003] find that democratic rule has an independent effect on the level of infant mortality across countries: holding all else constant, the level of infant mortality is higher in authoritarian regimes than in democracies.…”

Section: Alternative Measures Of Developmentmentioning

confidence: 84%

Measuring the Dissemination of Volatility across Levels of Development

Edwards¹,

Thames²,

Edwards³

2006

Topics in Macroeconomics

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Using levels of democratic development as a proxy for economic development, and using a 2SLS GMM dynamic panel estimation methodology, we investigate the degree and direction of dissemination in the volatility of economic growth. Our findings indicate two essential points. First, there are differences along the democratic continuum of the ability of a country's economic growth volatility to affect other countries. Thus, an economic recession for example in one country, does not affect all countries equally across regime type. Second, growth volatility is not simply a North-South phenomenon, but a South-South phenomenon as well. In fact, the empirical patterns found here call into question the usefulness of relying on even these simple, dichotomous views of the world.

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Section: Alternative Measures Of Developmentmentioning

confidence: 84%

Measuring the Dissemination of Volatility across Levels of Development

Edwards¹,

Thames²,

Edwards³

2006

Topics in Macroeconomics

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“…These gains confirmed a trend that had also characterizsed the previous decades in Pakistan as well as globally: worldwide, in the latter half of the twentieth century infant-mortality rate dropped from 156 in 1950 to 57 in 1999 as a product of a United Nations agenda focusing on Health for All and primary health care. 33 But, as Table 4 indicates, in other countries of the region, both autocratic and democratic, decreases were actually more dramatic, with the consequence that mortality rates in Pakistan at the end of the decade remained very high when compared to other countries, including those with similar per capita income or similar rate of growth. Significantly, while Pakistan in the 1970s had lower mortality rates than all countries in the region with the exception of Sri Lanka, two decades later it had the highest rates.…”

Section: Health and Education Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Democratic transition and social spending: the case of Pakistan in the 1990s

Giunchi

2011

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The article assesses the social consequences of the democratic transition that began in Pakistan in 1988 and ended in 1999 by analysing public spending for health and education and changes in human development indicators. Available information indicates that the return to democracy did not lead to greater spending in these two sectors. It is argued that the key internal factors that hampered government commitment to social welfare were the pre-eminence among elected representatives of social groups unwilling to invest in the human capital of the majority and the dominance of the armed forces in the country's power politics.

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“…Studies show that fertility is highly correlated with infant mortality (Przeworski et al, 2000;Navia & Zweifel, 2003) and this is usually explained by the insurance model in which parents have many children because the risk of them dying at a young age is very high. To control for this relationship in our model, we employ data from WDI on the fertility rate measured as the number of births per woman (World Bank, 2013).…”

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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries: The Role of Democracy

Welander

Lyttkens²,

Nilsson

2014

SSRN Journal

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Democracy, Dictatorship, and Infant Mortality Revisited

Cited by 62 publications

References 10 publications

Measuring the Dissemination of Volatility across Levels of Development

Measuring the Dissemination of Volatility across Levels of Development

Democratic transition and social spending: the case of Pakistan in the 1990s

Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries: The Role of Democracy

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