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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy

Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient … interregional paradoxes, particularly the ones related to undernourishment and childhood undernutrition. The paper suggests that …

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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...

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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...

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