Poverty and Aspirations Failure
Building upon a successful mobile phone-based education pilot program in Niger (Aker et al 2012), this research will assess the impact of a mobile phone-based adult education program in Niger in an expanded population.
The impact of the community-based health planning and services programme (CHPS) on skilled assistance at birth in Ghana
Chronic poverty is a condition that requires an understanding of the processes that make, and keep, people poor. The economic analysis of chronic poverty must take into account the interaction between external circumstances (initial wealth social status, health) and intrinsic psychological factors (aspirations, self-confidence, beliefs).
Behavioural decisions : theory, implications and applications
The aim of this project is to quantify the spatial links between poverty and poor utilisation of maternal health services in Ghana. This project builds on previous work in a range of African countries which showed that individual and community characteristics alone do not go far towards explaining service use at childbirth, especially in West African countries
Maternal and Infant Deaths: Chasing Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5
Utilisation of maternal health facilities : evaluation of the impact of the 2003 fee exemption policy in Ghana
Too far to walk : callibrating distances to maternity health facilities for women delivering in Ghana using GIS
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