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Retinopathy of prematurity in middle-income countries

The Lancet, 1997
In the 1940s and 1950s retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) was the single commonest cause of blindness in children in many industrialised countries; it now accounts for only 6-18% of blindness registrations. It is not known what proportion of blindness is due to ROP in countries that do not have blindness registers. Information on blindness in children in
C, Gilbert   +4 more
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Law and Development in Middle-Income Countries: Introduction

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
In 1960, there were 101 middle-income countries (MICs). By 2008, only thirteen had become high-income countries (HICs). Why do so many middle-income countries fail to develop after a promising start, becoming mired in the so-called “middle-income trap?” This is the introductory chapter to an interdisciplinary volume that addresses the special ...
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Law and Development in Middle-Income Countries

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
This concluding chapter summarizes the key findings, locates these findings within the existing literatures on law and development and related fields, develops policy recommendations for MIC governments and development agencies, and highlights areas for further research.
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Social assistance in low- and middle-income countries

2023
Low- and middle-income countries have upscaled social assistance provisions in the new century, with the aim of addressing poverty and disadvantage. This chapter offers a concise description and analysis of the emerging trends in social assistance in low- and middle-income countries.
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Development cooperation with middle-income countries [PDF]

open access: possible, 2011
Only flows to countries that are on the DAC list of recipients can be labelled Official Development Assistance (ODA). The countries on that list however are a mixed bag. Based on a World Bank classification, the DAC list for instance includes Burundi, with an income per capita in 2009 of $150, and Brazil, with an income per capita in 2009 of $ 8840 ...
Verbeke, Karel, Renard, Robrecht
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Middle Income Trap: Panel Data Analysis on Upper Middle Income Countries

2016
The purpose of the dissertation is to put forward the possibility of middle income trap and the social and economic indicators to help avoid it for a selected group of upper middle income countries by employing convergence and panel data analyses during the period of 1982-2012.
BOZKURT, Eda   +2 more
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