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The reduction of under-five mortality is one of the most universally accepted Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Yet a significant debate appeared regarding the means of reaching it and its realism with respect to most African countries (Sahn and Stifel 2003). The measures recommended for the achievement of this objective are mainly medical ones (Sachs 2002). However, without underestimating the importance of these measures, vaccinations in particular, it seems obvious that the reduction in the rate of child mortality is mainly determined by the evolution of the macroeconomic environment (see Grigoriou 2005 for an overview of quantitative work on the determinants of under-five mortality).
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Guillaumont, P., Korachais, C., Subervie, J. (2011). How Growth and Related Instabilities Lower Child Survival. In: McGillivray, M., Dutta, I., Lawson, D. (eds) Health Inequality and Development. Studies in Development Economics and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304673_6
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