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Trade costs, export development, and poverty in Rwanda
Diop, Ndiame - 2005
"For Rwanda, one of the poorest countries in the world, trade offers the most effective route for substantial poverty … reduction. But the poor in Rwanda, most of whom are subsistence farmers in rural areas, are currently disconnected from markets … diagnostic study of constraints to trade in Rwanda. It provides a number of indicative simulations that show the potential for …
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The performance of Bulgarian food markets during reform
Larson, Donald F. - 2009
"Food policy often depends on markets and markets depend on institutions. But how good do institutions have to be before reforms can be launched? Relying on well timed surveys of agricultural prices and a joint study by the Government of Bulgaria and the World Bank on agricultural market...
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Improving child nutrition outcomes in India : can the integrated child development services be more effective?
Das Gupta, Monica - 2005
"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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Health, nutrition & population
1997
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Improving Nutrition Through Multisectoral Approaches
World Bank - 2013
The objectives of the nutrition sensitive social protection are: 1) target activities to the most nutritionally vulnerable populations such as pregnant women and children less than 24 months; 2) include nutrition education and counseling activities within social protection interventions to...
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Improving Nutrition through Multisectoral Approaches
World Bank - 2014
Nutrition sensitive agriculture aims to maximize the impact of nutrition outcomes for the poor, while minimizing the unintended negative nutritional consequences of agricultural interventions and policies on the poor, especially women and young children. It is agriculture with a nutrition lens,...
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From Agriculture to Nutrition : Pathways, Synergies and Outcomes
World Bank - 2007
The report seeks to analyze what has been learned about how agricultural interventions influence nutrition outcomes in low-and middle-income countries, focusing on the target populations of the millennium development goals-people living on less than a dollar a day. It also sets out to synthesize...
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Nutrition
World Bank - 2012
Reducing malnutrition is a cornerstone of poverty reduction. General malnutrition and specific micronutrient deficiencies contribute to infant, child, and maternal morbidity; decreased learning capacity; lower productivity and higher mortality. Because malnutrition is often due to a combination...
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Guinea - Moving Towards Food Security
World Bank - 2012
The Guinea National Agricultural Services Project's overall development objective is to improve nationwide agricultural productivity and production, incomes of farmers and food security. Initiated in 1996, the food security component of this project was undertaken in conjunction with the Food...
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