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working paper

Saving lives through technology: Mobile phones and infant mortality

world bank policy research working paper
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2022
| by Justice Tei Mensah, Kibrom Tafere and Kibrom A. Abay

Digital technologies can expand access to health services to underserved populations. This paper leverages mobile network expansion and survey data spanning two decades to study the impact of access to mobile phones on infant mortality in Africa.

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Future foodscapes: Re-imagining agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean

2020
| by Michael Morris, Ashwini Sebastian, Viviana Maria Eugenia Perego, John D. Nash, Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Valeria Piñeiro, David Laborde Debucquet, Timothy S. Thomas, Pradeep Prabhala, Joaquin Arias, Carmine Paolo De Salvo and Miriam Centurion

Agriculture and food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LAC) are rightfully recognized as among the most successful on the planet: they have fed a fast-growing population, facilitated economic development, enabled urbanization, gen

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Winners and losers from COVID-19 : Global evidence from Google search

world bank policy research working paper
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2020
| by Kibrom A. Abay, Kibrom Tafere and Andinet Woldemichael

As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the world, researchers are attempting to quantify the economic fallout from the pandemic as it continues to unfold.