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This paper provides evidence of the effects of a large-scale intervention that focuses on the quality of nutritional and child care inputs during the early stages of life. The empirical strategy uses a combination of double-difference and weighting estimators in a longitudinal survey to address...
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This paper provides evidence of the effects of a large-scale intervention that focuses on the quality of nutritional and child care inputs during the early stages of life. The empirical strategy uses a combination of double-difference and weighting estimators in a longitudinal survey to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746819
This article previews the Food Security and Nutrition Project, which is primarily active in two of Madagascar's six … work program targeted to the urban poor in Greater Antananarivo; (b) nutrition interventions including: (i) a community … nutrition program in the provinces of Toliary and Antananarivo working through mothers' groups organized by a community …
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study arms receive nutrition information. We find that performance pay reduces the prevalence of underweight by about 5 …
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In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty … similar improvements in the nutritional situation of the people and especially of children. We find that undernutrition … Organization's threshold. We investigate the factors that influence nutrition outcomes, measured as Z-scores of the weight …
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Poverty and inequality persist in many dimensions in the developing world. In order to understand the determinants of poverty and its distribution between and within countries, it is necessary to know its dimensions and the channels through which poverty and inequality affect human well-being....
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Comparing DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...
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