The Fight Against Malaria: A New Index for Quantifying and Assessing Policy Implementation Actions to Reduce Malaria Burden in Sub-Saharan Africa.
We aggregate information from the World Malaria Reports on 61 different antimalarial policies to develop an extensive synthetic index (MaPI) for 44 SSA countries between 1990 and 2017. We observe an increase of convergence in polices' implementation in the region, starting in more developed countrie...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 59; no. 7; pp. 1092 - 1114 |
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Jul2023
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