Growing up global and equal? Inequality trends among world children, 1980–2005

Eloundou‐Enyegue, Parfait M.; Rehman, Anila

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“…Importantly, similar convergence is not visible across African countries. This differentiation extends to children's schooling and mortality, raising concerns about future inequality (UNICEF, 2008;Eloundou-Enyegue & Rehman, 2009). Africa thus stands as an exception to the convergence noted for world countries as a whole.…”

Section: Why Rural-urban Inequality Mattersmentioning

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International Handbook of Rural Demography

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Curtis²

2012

International Handbooks of Population

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The International Handbooks of Population offer up-to-date scholarly summaries and sources of information on the major subject areas and issues of demography and population. Each handbook examines its particular subject area in depth, providing timely, accessible coverage of its full scale and scope, discusses substantive contributions for deeper understanding, and provides reliable guidance on the direction of future developments.Volumes will explore topics of vital interest: Population Aging, Poverty, Mortality, Family Demography, Migration, Race and Ethnic Demography and more. Each volume will provide a state-of-the-art treatment of its respective area. The series will quickly prove useful to a broad audience including demographers, practitioners and scholars across a range of disciplines.

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Section: Why Rural-urban Inequality Mattersmentioning

confidence: 99%

International Handbook of Rural Demography

Kulcsár¹,

Curtis²

2012

International Handbooks of Population

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Demographic Change and Rural-Urban Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and Trends

Eloundou‐Enyegue

Giroux

2011

International Handbook of Rural Demography

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Women's Rights Save Lives

Burroway

2015

Sociology of Development

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Sociologists have long recognized women's empowerment as a key factor in improving development and health in developing countries. Using new data, this study goes beyond the traditionally used indicators of empowerment by highlighting the potential role of women's rights to land, property, and loans in explaining cross-national variation in child health. Results show that land and property rights are associated with lower rates of infant and child mortality across 75 developing countries, net of women's literacy and a variety of controls. Notably, the robustness of the land and property variables is comparable to that of GDP or access to clean water/sanitation. This provides some suggestive evidence that perhaps these aspects of women's empowerment may be just as important as some of the more conventional correlates of child health. However, access to bank loans is not significantly associated with lower infant and child mortality. This is consistent with a growing body of research that questions the efficacy of microfinance and loan programs for poverty reduction, health, and other development outcomes.

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Growing up global and equal? Inequality trends among world children, 1980–2005

Cited by 3 publications

References 45 publications

International Handbook of Rural Demography

International Handbook of Rural Demography

Demographic Change and Rural-Urban Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and Trends

Women's Rights Save Lives

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