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Fundraising For Families: A Strategic Communications Campaign For Give Hope 2 Kids In Honduras, Emily Jackson
Fundraising For Families: A Strategic Communications Campaign For Give Hope 2 Kids In Honduras, Emily Jackson
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Honduras is a Central American country rich with natural beauty—and also stricken with poverty and malnutrition. According to the 2010 UNICEF national report for Honduras, almost 1 in 3 children under 5 years old experience malnutrition, and malnutrition and poverty worsen in rural areas. The 2020 World Bank Poverty and Equity Report for Honduras estimates that as of 2018, nearly half (48.3%) of Hondurans live below the national poverty line. Honduras had the most adolescent births in Central America in 2006 with similar rates in the 20 years prior, according to the Guttmacher Institute. UNICEF data from 2018 also showed …
Gender Separate Effects Of Human Capital On Economic Growth, Jordan King
Gender Separate Effects Of Human Capital On Economic Growth, Jordan King
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This paper examines the gender-separate effects of human capital on economic growth using a regression framework, treating human capital as dually influenced by both health and education. Upon controlling for fertility, we find that there is no statistically significant difference between the effects that the male and female human capital dimensions have on economic growth: accumulation of both is equally important. Furthermore, our results also shed light on the different effects that human capital’s components, health and education, have on countries at different levels of development. We find that health effects, regardless of gender, are more prominent for growth in …