Closing Rural-Urban MDG Gaps in Low-Income Countries (Record no. 25159)
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| Standard number or code | 10.1596/1813-9450-6390 |
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| System control number | (The World Bank)6390 |
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| Personal name | Lofgren, Hans |
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| Title | Closing Rural-Urban MDG Gaps in Low-Income Countries |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | A General Equilibrium Perspective / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Hans Lofgren |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Washington, D.C., |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | The World Bank, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2013 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource (37 p.) |
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| Summary, etc | This paper addresses policies aimed at closing the rural-urban gap for one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the under-five mortality rate (U5MR). The paper relies on the Maquette for MDG Simulations (MAMS), a computable general equilibrium model, applied to the database of an archetypical low-income country. The scenarios, which focus on the period 2013-2030, include a "business-as-usual" base scenario and policy scenarios that analyze efforts to raise the rural population up to the urban level in terms of health services or the under-five mortality rate. The policy scenarios are implemented with alternative sources of fiscal space. The results indicate that, if current trends continue, considerable progress for MDGs should be expected by 2030. If the government raises rural health services, then the decline in the rural U5MR would accelerate. If most additional resources come from foreign grants or government efficiency gains, then the repercussions for other development indicators, including poverty reduction, would be positive. However, if most additional resources are from domestic taxes or borrowing, then progress for the rural U5MR would come at the expense of less progress for other indicators. Sensitivity analysis shows that these qualitative findings are robust to different values for two parameters related to initial rural-urban cost and service gaps. However, quantitatively, the results depend on the values of these two parameters, implying that individual country characteristics strongly influence the fiscal-space requirements for and consequences of equalizing rural-urban MDG services and outcomes. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Computable General Equilibrium |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | MAMS |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Millennium Development Goals |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Population Policies |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Rural Poverty Reduction |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lofgren, Hans |
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| Main entry heading | Print version: |
| Display text | Lofgren, Hans |
| Title | Closing Rural-Urban MDG Gaps in Low-Income Countries:. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2013 |
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| Uniform title | Policy research working papers. |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-6390">http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-6390</a> |
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