Borrowing against the Future: Children and Third World Indebtedness

Bradshaw, York W.; Noonan, Rita K.; Gash, Laura; Sershen, Claudia Buchmann

doi:10.2307/2579888

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“…Some of this literature (Firebaugh and Beck 1994) finds evidence supporting hypotheses suggested by modernization theory that intranational or internal factors reduce infant mortality. In contrast, other studies (Bradshaw et al 1993;Caldwell 1993;Bradshaw and Huang 1991) find infant mortality to be a function of international or external forces suggested by dependency and world systems theory. A smaller number of analyses (Frey and Field 2000;Boehmer and Williamson 1996; Lena and London 1993;Wimberley 1990) conclude that predictors linked to both modernization theory and dependency theory are important when attempting to account for cross-national variation in infant mortality.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…Although previous research (Shen and Williamson 2001;Frey and Field 2000;Boehmer and Williamson 1996;Firebaugh and Beck 1994;Bradshaw et al 1993;Caldwell 1993;Lena and London 1993;Bradshaw and Huang 1991;Wimberley 1990;Cutright and Adams 1984) has provided invaluable insights into developing an understanding of infant mortality, these studies have not adequately specified the contexts in which intranational, political factors interact with international, economic factors that influence infant mortality in the developing world. We begin to fill this gap in the literature by conducting the first study of infant mortality to include interaction terms between the level of democracy and transnational economic linkages associated with exports, multinational corporations, and international lending institutions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This reduces government spending on various health and social service programs, preventing any reductions in infant mortality. Several studies suggest that debt dependency has an adverse effect on infant mortality (Shen and Williamson 2001;Frey and Field 2000;Bradshaw et al 1993;Bradshaw and Huang 1991).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Over the past two decades, a number of quantitative, cross-national studies have been published examining the factors that influence infant mortality rates (Shen and Williamson 2001;Frey and Field 2000;Boehmer and Williamson 1996;Firebaugh and Beck 1994;Bradshaw et al 1993;Lena and London 1993;Bradshaw and Huang 1991;Wimberley 1990;Cutright and Adams 1984). Some of this literature (Firebaugh and Beck 1994) finds evidence supporting hypotheses suggested by modernization theory that intranational or internal factors reduce infant mortality.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Dependency, democracy, and infant mortality: a quantitative, cross-national analysis of less developed countries

Shandra

Nobles

London

et al. 2004

Social Science & Medicine

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This study presents quantitative, sociological models designed to account for cross-national variation in infant mortality rates. We consider variables linked to four different theoretical perspectives: the economic modernization, the social modernization, the political modernization, and the dependency perspectives. The study is based on a panel regression analysis of a sample of fifty-nine developing countries. Our preliminary analysis based on additive models replicates prior studies to the extent that we find that indicators linked to economic and social modernization have beneficial effects on infant mortality. We also find support for hypotheses derived from the dependency perspective suggesting that multinational corporate penetration fosters higher levels of infant mortality. Subsequent analysis incorporating interaction effects suggest that the level of political democracy conditions the effects of dependency relationships based upon exports, investments from multinational corporations, and international lending institutions. Transnational economic linkages associated with exports, multinational corporations, and international lending institutions adversely affect infant mortality more strongly at lower levels of democracy than at higher levels of democracy; that is intranational, political factors interact with the international, economic forces to affect infant mortality. We conclude with some brief policy recommendations and suggestions for the direction of future research.3

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Dependency, democracy, and infant mortality: a quantitative, cross-national analysis of less developed countries

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Nobles

London

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Social Science & Medicine

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“…A number of studies from this perspective have found that FDI generates increased income inequality and slows economic growth (Bradshaw et al 1993;Dixon and Boswell 1996;Kentor and Boswell 2003). Vijaya and Kaltani (2007) found that increased FDI flows have a negative impact on manufacturing wages in the developing world, particularly among female wage-earners, countering a central point of the neoclassical argument.…”

Section: Foreign Investment and Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%