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vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …
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specific investments in education, health, and nutrition. The paper first describes PROGRESA/Oportunidades and estimates of the …
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more active measures in key areas such as control over land, water, and other assets, and investment in education, health …
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more active measures in key areas such as control over land, water, and other assets, and investment in education, health …
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"Studies have shown that malnourished children in developing countries score lower on tests of cognitive function and fail to acquire fine motor skills at the normal rate. Do the effects of nourishment—good or bad—in early childhood linger into adolescence and adulthood, or do they fade away...
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"The economic motivations for investing in the education and nutritional status of primary-school-aged children are … complementarities. However, in developing countries, poor and creditconstrained households routinely invest less in education and … nutrition than is privately or socially optimal. Food for education (FFE) programs, including meals served in school and take …
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vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …
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vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …
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South Asia has long been synonymous with persistent and unusually high rates of child undernutrition—the so-called Asian enigma. Yet contrary to this stereotype, Bangladesh has managed to sustain a rapid reduction in the rate of child undernutrition for at least two decades. In this paper...
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