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Health shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa: Are the poor and uninsured households more vulnerable?

Atake, Esso-Hanam - In: Health Economics Review 8 (2018) 26, pp. 1-14

health insurance could mitigate vulnerability to poverty. Other challenges-birth control policy, adequate sanitation …

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Health shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa: are the poor and uninsured households more vulnerable?

Atake, Esso-Hanam - In: Health economics review 8 (2018) 26, pp. 1-14

health insurance could mitigate vulnerability to poverty. Other challenges-birth control policy, adequate sanitation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942900

Poverty and Hunger in India: What is Needed to Eliminate Them

Virmani, Arvind - In: The Pakistan Development Review 45 (2006) 2, pp. 241-259

There is a widespread impression among the Indian intelligentsia, foreign scholars, and residents of developed/rich countries that India’s economic growth has not reduced poverty, that globalisation has worsened poverty and/or income distribution, and that there are hundreds of millions of...

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WATER, SANITATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN URBAN FRINGE SETTLEMENTS IN NIGERIA

SANUSI, Yekeen A. - In: Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management 5 (2010) 8(17), pp. 14-29

The importance of water and sanitation facilities has been reflected in the measurement of human development and in … their inclusion in Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Water and sanitation facilities attain a unique situation at the … urban fringe. This study is focused on the investigation of the supply of water and sanitation facilities in the fringe …

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The power of WASH: Why sanitation matters for nutrition

Spears, Dean; Haddad, Lawrence James - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report

Water, sanitation, and hygiene can have a profound effect on health and nutrition. A growing base of evidence on the … link between sanitation, child height, and well-being has come at an opportune time, when the issue of sanitation and …

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Food safety: Reducing and managing food scares

Grace, Delia; McDermott, John - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report

A series of high-profile food-related scares around the globe has drawn attention to the issue of food safety and other health risks associated with agriculture. Because the scope of the problem is different at different levels of economic development, we need nuanced policy options to promote...

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Reaching the missing middle: Overcoming hunger and malnutrition in middle income countries

Fan, Shenggen; Cousin, Ertharin - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report

Eliminating hunger and malnutrition around the globe cannot be achieved without a new approach to dealing with the problem in middle income countries. Here’s why this is so, how the middle income countries should respond, and what the international community can do to help.

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The business imperative: Helping small family farmers to move up or move out

Fan, Shenggen; Brzeska, Joanna; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report

How can family farmers best contribute to their country’s agriculture needs as well as broader development goals? First, we should determine which farmers can be profitable and assist them in doing so. Second, for those who aren’t profitable, we need to help them shift to other economic...

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Regional developments: Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean

Badiane, Ousmane; Collins, Julia; Makombe, Tsitsi; … - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report

In addition to global developments and food policy changes, 2014 also saw important developments with potentially wide repercussions in individual countries and regions. This chapter offers perspectives on major food policy developments in various regions including Africa, the Middle East and...

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Conflict and food insecurity: How do we break the links?

Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Trinh Tan, … - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report

Food and nutrition insecurity are becoming increasingly concentrated in conflict-affected countries, affecting millions of people. Policies and interventions that build resilience to these shocks have the power to not only limit the breadth and depth of conflict and violence around the world,...

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