Child Mortality in the LDCs: The Role of Trade, Institutions and Environmental Quality
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Keywords
Child Mortality; Trade; Institutions; Environment; Least Developed Countries;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
- F18 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Environment
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2015-06-13 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2015-06-13 (Health Economics)
- NEP-INT-2015-06-13 (International Trade)
- NEP-RES-2015-06-13 (Resource Economics)
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