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Peer reviewedShen, Ce; Williamson, John B. – Social Forces, 1997
Data from 86 developing countries suggest that foreign investment and debt dependency have adverse indirect effects on child mortality--effects mediated by variables linked to industrialism theory and gender stratification theory: women's education, health, and reproductive autonomy and rate of economic growth. State strength was related to lower…
Descriptors: Contraception, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Females
