Community-based participatory research (CBPR) increasingly is being recognized by health scholars and funders as a potent approach to collaboratively studying and acting to address health disparities. Emphasizing action as a critical part of the research process, CBPR is particularly consistent with the goals of "results oriented philanthropy" and of government funders who have become discourag...

The study examines the effectiveness of financial development, access, and ICT diffusion in reducing severity intensity poverty Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using data from World Bank’s Development Indicators, Global Consumption Income Project (1980–2019), we provide evidence robust to several specifications dynamic system GMM panel corrected standard errors estimation techniques show that, co...

This paper proposes a new index of multidimensional poverty, called the Global Correlation Sensitive Poverty Index (G-CSPI), which has three interesting features. First, it encompasses dimensions: decent work, education and access to drinking water sanitation, largely overlap with list ideal dimensions obtained by expanding Constitutional Approach, although does not include direct health measur...

We investigate the impact of three large-scale social-protection schemes in Ethiopia, India, and Peru on multidimensional poverty. Using data from Young Lives cohort study, we show trend, changes evolution poverty for individuals program participant households. follow a number strategies to produce estimates that deal with non-random placement. Our findings both incidence intensity declined all...

This study examines the spatial impact of FDI on poverty 44 African countries. In achieving this, uses Driscoll–Kraay fixed effect instrumental variable regression, generalized method moments estimator (IV-GMM), and Durbin model. The empirical investigation this yielded four significant findings: (1) neighboring countries’ FDIs have a positive incidence intensity host country’s poverty, (2) imp...

The restrictions of a U.S. trade embargo and the collapse of the Soviet Union marked the beginning of a period of extreme economic hardship in Cuba. Economic adversity has had tremendous effects, both positive and negative, on all aspects of life on the Island, including environmental and public health.

This article is written as a contribution to the parenting debate and as a response to Hoghughi and Speight. Our starting point is simple; parenting cannot be understood, and neither can interventions to support eVective parenting and successful childrearing be planned, unless it is placed within its economic, social, historical, and political context. Our paper is based around three interconne...

We call for the development of human biobanks in developing countries and describe several examples from low income countries which are already building their own biobanks. Developing human biobanks in developing countries requires strengthening of the research capacity to use the new technologies, as well as a shift in research investment priorities in order to reduce the inequity in internati...