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The consequences of early childhood growth failure over the life course:
Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John; Behrman, Jere R.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
This paper examines the impact over the life course of early childhood growth failure as measured by achieved height at 36 months. It uses data collected on individuals who participated in a nutritional supplementation trial between 1969 and 1977 in rural Guatemala and who were subsequently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009000963
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A framework for physical growth and child development:
Alderman, Harold; Behrman, Jere R.; Glewwe, Paul - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
It is widely recognized that there is a continuum of physical growth and social-emotional and cognitive development across the life course, from the preconception health status of the mother through adulthood. This paper lays out a core economic model that illustrates the interrelationship of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272220
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Evaluating the Mexico city policy: How US foreign policy affects fertility outcomes and child health in Ghana
Jones, Kelly M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
abortions and between 500,000 and 750,000 additional unintended births. I find that these additional unwanted children have … pregnancy, abortion, and unintended births, resulting in more than a half-million children of significantly reduced nutritional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395595
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Population policy and individual choice: a theoretical investigation
Nerlove, Marc; Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1987
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113262
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The impact of technical change in agriculture on human fertility: district-level evidence from India
Vosti, Stephen A.; Witcover, Julie; Lipton, Michael - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1994
human fertility. Little comprehensive research, however, has been done on the effects of those technologies themselves on … human fertility leaving unanswered the question of whether particular types of agricultural technologies were actually … agricultural change (from 1961 to 1981) and changes in human fertility (from 1971 to 1981) to assess the impact of the former on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996708
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Population growth and policy options in the developing world
Bongaarts, John; Bruce, Judith - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998
discrimination against women and improve the lives of children, as well as those seeking to reduce fertility and population growth … place despite declining fertility rates and identify a number of factors. Well-designed population policies are broad in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101369
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Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda:
Van Campenhout, Bjorn - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor … variation in the number of children born to a mother and related it to agricultural labor supply and production outcomes in … Uganda—a country that combines a dominant agricultural sector with one of the highest fertility rates in the world. We found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114773
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Urbanization and fertility rates in Ethiopia:
Tadesse, Fanaye; Headey, Derek - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762100
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Atlas of African agriculture research and development: Revealing agriculture's place in Africa
Sebastian, Kate (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development is a multifaceted resource that high­lights the ubiquitous nature of smallholder agriculture in Africa; the many factors shaping the location, nature, and performance of agricultural enterprises; and the strong interde­pendencies among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850582
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Indice globale della fame: La sfida della fame 2013: Sviluppare la resilienza delle comunita per la sicurezza alimentare e nutrizionale
von Grebmer, Klaus; Headey, Derek; Bene, Christophe; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
L Indice Globale della Fame 2013 (GHI), relativo ai dati del periodo 2008-2012, mostra che la fame mondiale e diminuita di un terzo rispetto al 1990. Nonostante i progressi, il livello della fame nel mondo rimane "grave", con 870 milioni di persone a soffrirne, secondo le stime...
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