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This close collaboration delivered the polio vaccine to the poorest of the poor, from the child living on a windswept island in the Congo River to the infant living in a tiny alleyway in Delhi.
Clearly, your infant daughter’s decision in two or three decades whether to have children is her own responsibility and choice to make.
All three came to office in systems that place real constraints on the exercise of power – even if the system is otherwise undemocratic or an infant democracy ready to be strangled in its cradle.
The risk in Russia is that calm economic growth will not come before a demagogic alliance of red and brown extremists stalls the advance of Russia's infant market democracy.
India was long known in the world for its rapid population growth, high fertility, high infant mortality, and risk of famine.
Mass illiteracy and high rates of infant mortality contribute to rapid population growth, by inducing families to have huge numbers of children to “beat the odds” in order to ensure that some children survive to adulthood.
Infant mortality has been cut in half, more citizens than ever enjoy educational opportunities, and electric, telephone, and sanitation services have expanded to serve a greater number of people.
A UNESCO project demonstrated that “each additional year of a mother’s schooling reduces the probability of the infant mortality rate by 5% to 10%”The health advantages of education extend beyond childbirth and infant health.
As she put it in her acceptance speech: “If someone told you that, with just 12 years of investment of about $1 billion a year, you could, across the developing world, increase economic growth, decrease infant mortality, increase agricultural yields, improve maternal health, improve children’s health and nutrition, increase the numbers of children – girls and boys – in school, slow down population growth, increase the number of men and women who can read and write, decrease the spread of AIDS, add new people to the work force, and be able to improve their wages without pushing others out of the work force, what would you say?
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan put it simply: “No other policy is as likely to raise economic productivity, lower infant and maternal mortality, improve nutrition, promote health, including the prevention of HIV/AIDS, and increase the chances of education for the next generation.
Most of the people over whom Obiang rules live in extreme poverty, with an average life expectancy of 49 years and an infant mortality rate of 87 per 1,000 live births (in other words, more than one child in twelve dies before its first birthday).
Likewise, Uttar Pradesh’s dismal social indicators – it has India’s worst infant and under-five mortality rates – will have negative externalities for the country as a whole.
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), despite this colossal spending, America lags behind Japan and several European countries in standard measures of health: infant mortality, life expectancy at birth, and deaths that could have been prevented by appropriate medical care.
Before that, the Kremlin had little idea about how to manipulate the new media outlets that Russia's infant democracy had produced.
Once, at a traditional ceremony, in which an infant child receives his tribal name, I watched the proud father and a half dozen male friends dance together before a crowd of well-wishers.
Infant mortality fell by 22% per year, and even faster for children under 5.Immunization rates rose by almost 5% per year.
If more girls had gone to school a generation ago, millions of infant deaths could have been averted each year, and tens of millions of families could have been more educated, healthier, and happier.
One of the clinics that was shuttered had been providing comprehensive infant and postpartum care.
Health conditions have worsened as well, owing to nutritional deficiencies and the government’s decision not to supply infant formula, standard vaccines against infectious diseases, medicines for AIDS, transplant, cancer, and dialysis patients, and general hospital supplies.
Only when Rodman’s superiors cancel his experiments and he takes home Caesar, an infant chimpanzee, does the scientist begin to care about others.
The device was of potentially great benefit to babies born in families with a history of sudden infant death.
Where half of the girls received secondary education, the average was just three children, and child and infant mortality were much lower.
As a result of government-funded national health insurance, the Nordic countries have a higher life expectancy and a lower infant mortality rate than the US.
“Big Blue” (as IBM is known) allowed other companies (notably the infant Microsoft) to develop its software.
Snags and fissures now bedevil Croatia's infant democratic reforms.
Assad, after all, literally unleashed the Islamic State’s current savagery: in May 2011, he released hundreds of Islamic radicals from prison, quickly supplying the infant group with fighters and leaders.
In the period from 1991 to 1993, nationalism was on the rise because Yeltsin’s infant democracy seemed weak, with the country in the throes of a deep economic crisis, as well as an acute confrontation between different branches of government.
Snippets of infant foreskin are used for generating artificial skin.
Dealing with Russia's infant private sector may be risky, but it is a matter of assessing the professionalism of credit officers rather than testing the honesty of politicians;- concentrate on people.
Infant mortality, child mortality, and life expectancy all correlate with rising income.
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