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-Saharan Africa has been solid and has supported improvements in nutrition outcomes and poverty rates.Despite some relative gains …- and climate-related risks to smallholders in SSA are compounded by predictions that both the suitability of crop area for …
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Identifying opportunities to increase agricultural productivity and incomes is an important priority for rural development. Progress toward poverty reduction continued in recent years, but the contribution of the agriculture sector was weak, mainly because productivity improvements were...
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The Government of Indonesia has introduced many reforms to improve the quality of education but learning outcomes have continued to lag. Improving the quality of education has been especially challenging in rural and remote areas. Starting in 2016, the World Bank supported the Government of...
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The agricultural and food production sector plays a key role in fighting poverty and food insecurity in Moldova, but is facing critical challenges to modernize and integrate into the international market. This paper focuses on smallholder farms, which make up 95 percent of all farms, and...
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response to under nutrition in the country. The note draws from a multivariate analysis of determinants of stunting in addition …Under nutrition levels in Lao PDR remain among the highest in the world, despite both rapid economic growth and a … significant decline in poverty over the past years. Concerns about the slow progress in reducing under nutrition have triggered …
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'Integrating Nutrition Promotion and Rural Development' (INPARD) is a multisectoral approach to delivering nutrition … development programme could be employed to deliver improved human nutrition outcomes - an objective not typically included in …
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. Between 2000 and 2010, national stunting rates dropped from 36.5 percent to 24.2 percent. The decrease from 2010 to 2015 was …-nourished population. Deficiencies in nutrition and health, lower levels of education, lack of language skills in the national language … gap in nutrition and economic well-being …
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of Health and Family Welfare (DoHFW) requested technical support for better understanding nutrition determinants and … objectives are to better understand the barriers to improved nutrition and health in Nagaland and to help the state government to … about the determinants of malnutrition in North East India; (ii) to identify gaps in maternal and child health and nutrition …
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With Malawi's economic growth recovering and single digit inflation, the Government has a keyopportunity to rein in fiscal deficits and reduce domestic debt. If it can better control domestic debt levels, the Government could increasingly move towards creating the conditions for the...
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This study aims to assess the public financing for nutrition in Sri Lanka. The primary purpose is to understand the … size and share of public investments in nutrition relative to the overall level of public expenditure in the country …. Second, it discusses whether the nutrition interventions in which the government budget is spent are in line with the global …
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