Search Results - subject:"Child malnutrition"

Pakistan; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

To stimulate private sector credit expansions in Pakistan, the monetary policy has been accommodative while financial sector reforms have brought about a lowering of intermediation costs and bank spreads. Consequently, the weighted average lending rates have declined from 14.6 percent in June...

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Ghana; Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

The Joint Staff Assessment (JSA) of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report on Ghana evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of poverty reduction objectives and strategies. The 2003 Annual Progress Report (APR) of the authoritiesâ€™ poverty reduction strategy provides a...

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Women`s Organisations, Maternal Knowledge, and Social Capital to Reduce Prevalence of Stunted Children - Evidence from Rural Nepal

Imai, Katsushi - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

of child malnutrition in member households. Our survey focused on three sets of women organisations: those that receive …

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Welfare implications of fiscal reform: The case of food subsidies in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2002

This paper investigates the effect of a food subsidy programme in India on child malnutrition by addressing the …

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Welfare Implications of Fiscal Reform: The Case of Food Subsidies in India

Bhalotra, Sonia - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2002

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Health, Economic Development, and Poverty in Developing Countries

Dao, Minh Quang - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 62 (2009) 2, pp. 163-174

This paper investigates the impact of health on the extent of poverty and on economic development in developing countries. Based on data from the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme and using a sample of seventy-nine developing economies, we find that the fraction of the...

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Poverty and Child Malnutrition in Bangladesh

Deolalikar, Anil B. - In: Journal of Developing Societies 21 (2005) 1-2, pp. 55-90

Child malnutrition is pervasive in Bangladesh, with nearly one-half of all children below the age of five years being … malnutrition during the last 15 years. There are large disparities in child malnutrition across gender, geographical regions, and … nongovernmental organizations have had significant impacts on reducing child malnutrition, especially among the poor. To attain the …

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Eradicating Child Malnutrition: Thailand's health, nutrition and poverty alleviation policy in the 1980s

Kiranandana, Thienchay; Tontisirin, Kraisid - 1992

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Determinants of Child Malnutrition: Empirical Evidence from Kombolcha District of Eastern Hararghe Zone, Ethiopia

Zewdie, Tadiwos; Abebaw, Degnet - In: Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 52

that child malnutrition cannot be tackled without understanding its causes, the paper explores the key determinants of … child malnutrition in Kombolcha districts of Eastern Hararghe, Ethiopia. The study used a two-stage sampling procedure to …

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The use of national sample surveys for nutritional surveillance: Lessons from Malawi's national sample survey of agriculture

Pelletier, David L.; Msukwa, Louis A. H. - In: Social Science & Medicine 32 (1991) 8, pp. 887-898

National sample surveys, containing measurements of the weights and heights of children along with other socioeconomic modules, represent one of the important sources of information for nutritional surveillance. The potential uses of such information are political sensitization, targeting by...

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