Mind the Gap! Widening Child Mortality Disparities

Journal of Human Development

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 397-418

  Minujin, Alberto ^a   Delamonica, Enrique ^a  

^a UNICEF   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Fertility; Mortality; Poverty; Under 5 Mortality Rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 17044395814     PISSN: 14699516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1464988032000125764     Document Type: Article

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