Reducing Maternal Mortality by Fighting Corruption
Maternal mortality, the death of women during or following pregnancy and childbirth, is declining, but at one third of the speed necessary to reach the Sustainable Development Goal of 70 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births by 2030. According to the World Health Organization, in 2020, ca. 287,000 deaths were recorded, 95% of them in low and lower middle-income countries, and around two-thirds in Sub-Saharan Africa.
A new paper is authored by four scholars affiliated to the Bocconi’s Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy (Arnstein Aassve, Alexandros Kentikelenis, Letizia Mencarini, and Veronica Toffolutti – the latter also affiliated to the Queen Mary University of London) and Eugenio Paglino (a Bocconi alumnus, now at the University of Pennsylvania), and published on PLOS Global Public Health.