Search Results - subject:"Child malnutrition"

Child Malnutrition in Pakistan: Trends and Determinants

Arif, G M; Nazir, Saman; Satti, Maryam Naeem; Farooq, … - eSocialSciences - 2012

The major objective of this paper to examine the determinants of child malnutrition, based on the Pakistan Panel … differentials in child malnutrition. Child illness, health status of their mothers and poverty status of households are the key …

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Incentives, information and malnutrition : evidence from an experiment in India

Prakarsh Singh; Mitra, Sandip - In: European economic review : EER 93 (2017), pp. 24-46

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Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums

Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

. This helps us identify if performance pay and public information are complements or substitutes in reducing child … malnutrition. I find that combining incentives to workers and information to mothers reduces weight-for-age malnutrition by 4.2% in …

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Changes in human development in developing countries: an empirical assessment

Dao, Minh - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 13-13

This paper empirically estimates the effect of determinants of changes in human development in developing countries. Based on data from the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, we use a sample of twenty-nine developing economies and find that cross-country changes in human...

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Republic of Mozambique; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

The Poverty Reduction Action Plan (PARP) 2011â€“14 is the medium-term strategy of the Government of Mozambique for putting into operation the Five-Year Government Program (2010â€“14). This medium-term instrument is part of the National Planning System (SNP) and is aligned with the...

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Determinants and trends of socioeconomic inequality in child malnutrition : the case of Mozambique, 1996-2011

Salvucci, Vincenzo - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 28 (2016) 6, pp. 857-875

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Sources of food price volatility and child malnutrition in Niger and Malawi

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Deotti, Laura; Sassi, Maria - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 60 (2016), pp. 20-30

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What are the successful strategies for reducing malnutrition among young children in East Africa?

Kasirye, Ibrahim - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

We analyzed the role that health programs played in improving the nutritional status of children aged five years and younger in East Africa during a period when health policies aiming to reduce malnutrition were implemented. We used several waves of Demographic and Health Surveys over the...

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Performance pay and information : reducing child undernutrition in India

Prakarsh Singh - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 112 (2015), pp. 141-163

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India's struggle against malnutrition : is the ICDS program the answer?

Jain, Monica - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 67 (2015), pp. 72-89

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