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Dietary diversity as a food security indicator
Hoddinott, John; Yohannes, Yisehac - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002
Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active, healthy life is surely an important component of their poverty. Accordingly, devising an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997171
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Dietary diversity as a food security indicator
Hoddinott, John; Yohannes, Yisehac - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002
Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active, healthy life is surely an important component of their poverty. Accordingly, devising an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997352
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Sanitation and credit constraints: The role of labelled microcredit in India's Swacch Bharat Mission subsidy scheme
Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Giunti, Sara; Malde, Bansi - 2022
combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies - Swacch Bharat or 'Clean India …, we provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193574
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Labeled loans and human capital investments
Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Giunti, Sara; Malde, Bansi - 2023
Imperfect capital markets and commitment problems impede lumpy human capital investments. Labeled loans have been postulated as a potential solution to both constraints, but little is known about the role of the label in influencing investment choices in practice. We draw on a cluster randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480589
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Understanding the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Nepal, 2001 - 2011
Headey, Derek D.; Hoddinott, John - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460120
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Sanitation and credit constraints : the role of labelled microcredit in India's Swacch Bharat Mission subsidy scheme
Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Giunti, Sara; Malde, Bansi - 2022
combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies – Swacch Bharat or ‘Clean India …, we provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822354
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Efficiency in Saving Infant Lives: the Influence of Water and Sanitation Coverage
Ferro, Gustavo; Romero, Carlos A.; Castiglione, Ignacio - HAL - 2011
In this paper, we aim to assess the relationship between water and sanitation coverage and saved infant lives. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216363
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Labeled loans and human capital investments
Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Giunti, Sara; Malde, Bansi - 2023
Imperfect capital markets and commitment problems impede lumpy human capital investments. Labeled loans have been postulated as a potential solution to both constraints, but little is known about the role of the label in influencing investment choices in practice. We draw on a cluster randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014371953
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Water, health, and income
Hoddinott, John - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1997
understood, with the effectiveness of interventions being ordered in the following way: improved household sanitation and hygiene … sanitation plus use of greater quantities of water tend to lead to the largest improvements in health. By contrast, the "economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997291
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The changing Latin American landscape in provision and regulation of the water and sanitation services
Lentini, Emilio J; Ferro, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Since the Great Depression of the 1930s, it was common knowledge in the Latin American water and sanitation sector the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674272