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Scaling Up Nutrition for a More Resilient Mali: Nutrition Diagnostics and Costed Plan for Scaling Up

Shekar, Meera; Mattern, Max; Eozenou, Patric; Eberwein, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

This paper builds on the global experience and Mali?s context to identify an effective nutrition approach as well as costs and benefits of key nutrition programs, as part of a resilience agenda after the crisis. It is intended to help guide the selection of the most cost-effective interventions...

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Costed Plan for Scaling Up Nutrition: Nigeria

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2014

This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...

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Nutrition in Bhutan: Situational Analysis and Policy Recommendations

Atwood, Stephen J; Nagpal, Somil; Mbuya, Nkosinathi V; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Yet two major indicators of significant undernutrition remain persistently … nutrition-specific determinants of undernutrition in Bhutan, among them diarrheal diseases, high parasite loads in parts of the …-specific recommendations because they are considered most feasible and would lead to immediate gains in reducing undernutrition gains that …

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A Study on the Implementation of Jampersal Policy in Indonesia

Achadi, Endang L.; Achadi, Anhari; Pambudi, Eko; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Indonesia launched Jampersal in 2011, a nationwide program to accelerate the reduction of maternal and newborn deaths. The program was financed by central government revenues and provided free and comprehensive maternal and neonatal care with an emphasis on promoting institutional deliveries....

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Africa's Pulse, February 2012 : An Analysis of Issues Shaping Africa's Economic Future

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank

This Africa's pulse newsletter includes the following headings: recent economic trends; global economic developments; and trends and outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Moving Out of Poverty : Volume 4. Rising from the Ashes of Conflict

Narayan, Deepa; Petesch, Patti - Economics Research, World Bank Group

Lifting people out of poverty is one of the great challenges facing the international community today. It has become … the world. Almost 1.4 billion people in developing countries live in poverty, according to recent estimates by the World … Bank, and a significant part of this population lives in chronic poverty. This is the fourth in a series of volumes …

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