Developing Countries

Report

Clean, Lean and Able: A Strategy for Defense Development — Dec 20, 2004

Political, economic, and security progress in the developing world has been discouraging since the Cold War ended.

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Priorities for policy research on nutrition interventions in primary health care — Jan 1, 2004

This paper assesses priorities for policy research dealing with nutrition interventions in primary health care programs in developing countries. Research and demonstration projects for "second best" growth-monitoring programs are needed, as are tests...

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Journal Article

Changes in American Opinion about Family Planning — Jan 1, 2004

The results indicate continuing high support for requiring US health insurers to cover family planning services (87 percent in 1998 and 84 percent in 2003), but some loss of support (from 80 to 69 percent) for US sponsorship of family planning programs in developing countries.

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• Population and Aging Research Area

Commentary

Want to Help Africa? Stop Farm Subsidies — Jun 18, 2002

Published commentary by RAND staff.

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Report

The Origins and Evolution of Family Planning Programs in Developing Countries — Jan 1, 2002

This book analyzes the origins and rationale of family planning programs and how they have evolved based on experience in different country settings.

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• Population and Aging Research Area

Journal Article

Roadmap for E-Government in the Developing World: 10 Question E-Government Leaders Should Ask Themselves — Jan 1, 2002

The Roadmap presents ten questions that e-government practitioners believe are crucial to conceiving, planning, managing and measuring e-government.

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Report

Issues Affecting Internet Use in Afghanistan and Developing Countries in the Middle East — Jan 1, 2002

Proposes a two-step approach to testing the feasibility of enhanced Internet access in Afghanistan and developing countries in the Middle East

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• National Security Research Area

Report

What is the Quality of Care in a Developing Country? Measuring Physician Practice and Health Outcomes — Jan 1, 2002

Although it is widely believed that less-developed countries have lower standards of medical care than the developed world, there are few quantifiable measures of quality of clinical care in less-developed countries. The objectives of this dissertati...

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Science & Technology Collaboration: Building Capacity in Developing Countries? — Jan 1, 2001

Science & Technology Collaboration: Building Capacity in Developing Countries?

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Journal Article

Diffusion of Ideas About Personal Hygiene and Contamination in Poor Countries: Evidence from Guatemala — Jan 1, 2001

In this paper, The authors explore the diffusion of beliefs pertaining to the causes of childhood diarrhea in rural Guatemala.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

Journal Article

The Eisenhower Administration: US Foreign Internal Security Assistance, and the Struggle for the Developing World, 1954-1961 — Jan 1, 2001

During the Eisenhower administration, the United States began its first systematic program of support to foreign police and paramilitary forces.

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• National Security Research Area

Report

Population Displacement and Migration in Developing Countries: An Exploratory Study in the Development of an Early Warning Decision Support System — Jan 1, 2000

This report identifies and explores a method of predicting the risk of large-scale displacements of human populations using a set of key environmental indicators.

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Social Capital, Technology Diffusion and Sustainable Growth in the Developing World — Jan 1, 2000

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Developing Countries & Global Climate Change: Electric Power Options for Growth — Jan 1, 1999

This report, prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, investigates policy and technology choices in the electric power sector that can lower carbon dioxide and other air emissions, while maintaining or improving economic growth.

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Journal Article

Child Survival in Developing Countries: Can Demographic and Health Surveys Help to Understand the Determinants? — Jan 1, 1999

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Family Planning in Developing Countries: An Unfinished Success Story Tanzeem el usrah fi el namiah: kissat nagah iam tantahi (Arabic version) — Jan 1, 1999

Family Planning in Developing Countries: An Unfinished Success Story Tanzeem el usrah fi el namiah: kissat nagah iam tantahi (Arabic version)

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The Value of Family Planning Programs in Developing Countries — Jan 1, 1998

Family planning programs have been highly successful over the past 30 years in providing women in development countries with desired access to contraceptive services and helping to reduce fertility rates.

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Journal Article

Healing Sick Institutions — Jan 1, 1998

The author distinguishes inefficient institutions from sick institutions.

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• Education and the Arts Research Area

Journal Article

Comments on Reinvigorating State Institutions, By Pradhan — Jan 1, 1998

Pradhan established that institutions and governance make a difference that is quantifiable; this difference makes sense in qualitative economic terms

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• International Affairs Research Area

Journal Article

The Use of Calendars to Measure Child Illness in Health Interview Surveys — Jan 1, 1998

During the past two decades, health interview surveys have become an increasingly common source of information about current morbidity patterns and utilization of health services in developing countries.

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• Children and Families Research Area