Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru
The effect of macroeconomic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. This article analyzes the impact of a profound crisis in Peru on infant mortality. It finds an increase of about 2.5 percentage points in the infant mortality...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/05/17747624/child-health-economic-crisis-peru http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16474 |
| Summary: | The effect of macroeconomic crises on
child health is a topic of great policy importance. This
article analyzes the impact of a profound crisis in Peru on
infant mortality. It finds an increase of about 2.5
percentage points in the infant mortality rate for children
born during the crisis of the late 1980s, which implies that
about 17,000 more children died than would have in the
absence of the crisis. Accounting for the precise source of
the increase in infant mortality is difficult, but it
appears that the collapse in public and private expenditures
on health played an important role. |
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