Increase in the level of female education improves human development outcomes such as child survival, health and schooling.

For one area, efforts should continue to measure inequalities in child survival outside of the fifty countries analyzed here.

It said such an alliance could "bring about a revolution in child survival."

The effect of certain household characteristics upon child survival has also been reported.

Economic activity of the mother may also have an effect on child survival.

Now, if child survival were simply a question of affluence as you might think it was, there's no way you could explain these figures.

The issue of child survival is already compromised if you're talking about a mother who is malnourished in the first place.

Larger values of II indicate more individual level inequality in child survival.

The Administration is also emphasizing the link between higher rates of child survival and lower fertility rates.

"Unicef is taking into account the broader implications of what contributes to child survival," she says.