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South Africa Milestones to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals on Poverty and Hunger

Fofana, Ismael - 2018

South Africa has signed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and placed poverty and inequality reduction at the forefront of its National Development Plan. This study links a nonparametric income distribution (micro) simulation model and an economywide general equilibrium (macro) model to...

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Improving Nutrition as a Development Priority : Addressing Undernutrition in National Policy Processes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Benson, Todd - 2012

Undernutrition remains a major source of human suffering and an obstacle to national economic and human development in … many African countries. This report investigates undernutrition's persistence, drawing on case studies of the public … actors, understanding of undernutrition, and the timing of public responses, the author explains why none of these four …

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The Global Landscape of Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Malnutrition and Implications for Agricultural Development Strategies

Headey, Derek D. - 2014

For many years poverty reduction was the overarching welfare objective of a wide range of development institutions and programs, particularly in the context of agricultural development. Yet in recent years the development community has increasingly set for itself more specific welfare objectives...

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Can Smallholder Fruit and Vegetable Production Systems Improve Household Food Security and Nutritional Status of Women? Evidence from Rural Uganda

Kabunga, Nassul; Ghosh, Shibani; Griffiths, Jeffrey - 2014

This paper aims to empirically infer potential causal linkages between fruit and vegetable (F&V) production, individual F&V intake, household food security, and anemia levels for individual women caregivers of childbearing age. Using a unique and rich dataset recently collected from rural...

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Food Policies and Nutrition Transition in Sri Lanka : Historical Trends, Political Regimes, and Options for Interventions

Weerahewa, Jeevika - 2018

In this paper we look at Sri Lanka's food and nutrition policies from a historical perspective to identify the intervention options for addressing the country's current food security and nutrition challenges

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Extreme Weather and Civil War in Somalia : Does Drought Fuel Conflict through Livestock Price Shocks?

Maystadt, Jean Francois; Ecker, Olivier; Mabiso, Athur - 2013

Climate change leads to more frequent and more intense droughts in Somalia. In a global context, weather shocks have been found to perpetuate poverty and fuel civil conflict. By relating regional and temporal variations in violent conflict outbreaks with drought incidence and severity, we show...

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Do Girls Pay the Price of Civil War : Violence and Infant Mortality in Congo

Dagnelie, Olivier; De Luca, Giacomo; Maystadt, Jean Francois - 2014

Civil wars inflict considerable development costs. Understanding the relative fragility of certain segments of the population is a necessary condition to build resilience to ongoing and future violence outbreaks. This paper documents the impact of the violent civil war affecting the Democratic...

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Near-Real-Time Welfare and Livelihood Impacts of an Active Civil War : Evidence From Ethiopia

Abay, Kibrom; Tafere, Kibrom; Berhane, Guush; … - 2022

Ethiopia is currently embroiled in a large-scale civil war that has continued for more than a year. Using unique High-Frequency Phone Survey (HFPS) data, which spans several months before and after the outbreak of the war, this paper provides fresh evidence on the ex durante impacts of the...

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Remoteness, Urbanization and Child Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa

Headey, Derek - 2018

Reducing undernutrition requires improving access to goods and services from a wide range of economic and social … burden of undernutrition, relatively little research has analyzed how different dimensions of accessibility, such as …

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Understanding the Rapid Reduction of Undernutrition in Nepal, 2001-2011

Headey, Derek D. - 2015

South Asia has long been synonymous with unusually high rates of undernutrition. In the past decade, however, Nepal has … postconflict political instability. Given recent interest in reducing undernutrition – particularly the role of nutrition …

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