Trade liberalization, social policies and health: an empirical case study

Table 10 Logical reduction results

Adult female mortality	Cases	Solution path consistency	Solution path coverage	Overall coverage	Overall consistency
Health improving
1. hMWGl	Brazil	0.975	0.082	0.082	0.975
Health worsening
2. HgL	Italy, Korea, Hungary, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovak Republic, Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Bulgaria	0.841	0.621	0.697	0.830
3. hMw* G*l	Bangladesh	0.753	0.079	0.697	0.830
Infant mortality
Health improving
Mwgl*	Colombia, Egypt, Greece	0.897	0.267	0.536	0.826
hMgl*	Ecuador, Turkey Colombia, Egypt	0.904	0.251	0.536	0.826
4. hMw*g	Kyrgyz Republic, Colombia, Azerbaijan, Morocco, Egypt	0.824	0.400	0.536	0.826
5. HmwgL	Korea	0.887	0.107	0.536	0.826
Health worsening
6. hwG*l	Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, China, Thailand	0.842	0.270	0.303	0.856
7. hMG*l	Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Brazil	0.916	0.214	0.303	0.856

H highly developed, M protective labour market, W protective welfare state, G employment growth, L employment loss (lower case signifies the negation of these conditions)

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