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interest to consumers. "Golden rice" has been genetically engineered to contain a higher level of vitamin A and thereby boost … of adopting both types of innovation in Asia, including its impact on rice producers and other consumers. They do so … gains could be dwarfed by the welfare gains resulting from the potential health-enhancing attributes of golden rice which …
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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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"Food policy often depends on markets and markets depend on institutions. But how good do institutions have to be … Bulgaria and the World Bank on agricultural market institutions, this paper presents evidence that performance in food markets … strengthening institutions is finished. Still, measured performance varied by place and by commodity, suggesting that markets …
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"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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