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Improving child nutrition outcomes in India : can the integrated child development services be more effective?
Das Gupta, Monica - 2005
"Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large public spending on the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program, of which the major component is supplementary feeding for malnourished children. To unravel this...
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Improving Nutrition Through Multisectoral Approaches
World Bank - 2013
The objectives of the nutrition sensitive social protection are: 1) target activities to the most nutritionally vulnerable populations such as pregnant women and children less than 24 months; 2) include nutrition education and counseling activities within social protection interventions to...
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Improving Nutrition through Multisectoral Approaches
World Bank - 2014
Nutrition sensitive agriculture aims to maximize the impact of nutrition outcomes for the poor, while minimizing the … children. It is agriculture with a nutrition lens, and should not detract from the sector's own goals. The agriculture sector …
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Nutrition
World Bank - 2012
Reducing malnutrition is a cornerstone of poverty reduction. General malnutrition and specific micronutrient deficiencies contribute to infant, child, and maternal morbidity; decreased learning capacity; lower productivity and higher mortality. Because malnutrition is often due to a combination...
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Malnutrition, what can be done? : lessons from World Bank experience
Berg, Alan D. - 1987
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Agriculture, food security, and rural development
2010 - 1. publ.
Contributed articles presented at the inception meeting of Economic Division in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance in collaboration with Asian Development Bank in New Delhi on 2-3 September 2003 on agricultural policy programmes in India supported by ADB furthered through...
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From Agriculture to Nutrition : Pathways, Synergies and Outcomes
World Bank - 2007
agriculture and nutrition outcomes. The report identifies a number of developments in agriculture and nutrition that have … transformed the context in which nutrition is affected by agriculture. The relationship between agriculture and human nutrition is … food supply and food demand. Expanding agriculture's purview and capacity to embrace those contributing factors and …
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Is skill-biased technological change here yet? : evidence from Indian manufacturing in the 1990
Berman, Eli - 2005
"Most high and middle-income countries showed symptoms of skill-biased technological change in the 1980s. India-a low income country-did not, perhaps because India's traditionally controlled economy may have limited the transfer of technologies from abroad. However the economy underwent a sharp...
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Credit constraints as a barrier to technology adoption by the poor : lessons from South Indian small-scale fishery
Gine, Xavier - 2005
"It is generally recognized that the adoption of a new technology plays a fundamental role in the development process. However, the benefits from the introduction of the technology may be unevenly distributed among the population, especially if the markets do not function properly. While the...
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