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Causal impacts of government social expenditure on infant mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean: New evidence from 1990–2017 data
Does governments’ social spending reduce infant mortality? If so, what are the causal mechanisms behind this effect? Using evidence from 19 countries ...

Child Mortality and Injury in Asia: An overview
Special Series on Child Injury no. 1. This paper presents an overview of the IRC Child Injury Series, a working paper series on child injury ...

Child Mortality and Injury in Asia: Policy and programme implications
Special Series on Child Injury no.4 This paper presents a summary of the findings of the national and sub-national surveys and discusses ...

Child Mortality and Injury in Asia: Survey methods
Special Series on Child Injury no.2 This paper presents a more detailed description of the survey methodology for technical specialists ...

Child Mortality and Injury in Asia: Survey results and evidence
Special Series on Child Injury no.3 This paper presents a detailed description of the survey results which were introduced in the Overview ...

Decline of Infant and Child Mortality: The European experience 1750-1990
Of the many changes that have taken place in Western society during the past two centuries, few have been more significant than the steep fall in infant ...

The Decline of Infant Mortality in Europe, 1800-1950: Four national case studies
The basic facts about the secular decline of infant mortality in Europe have been known for nearly a century. Regristration series show that the levels ...

How High is Infant Mortality in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS?
This paper examines the measurement of infant mortality in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. There ...

The Impact of the Food and Financial Crises on Child Mortality: The case of sub-Saharan Africa
This study presents an econometric model to estimate changes in the under-five mortality rate in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the ...

Innocenti Social Monitor 2003
Social Monitor 2003 is the second in the Innocenti Social Monitor series. It includes a Statistical Annex covering a broad range of indicators for the ...