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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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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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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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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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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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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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Over the past 25 years, economic growth rates in many developing countries have outpaced those in industrialized countries, and per capita incomes of these two groups of countries have started to converge. Growth in developing countries contributed to a dramatic drop — from 37 percent to 13...
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of engagement, reviews the evidence base on public-private partnerships (PPPs) for the reduction of undernutrition, and … profits. There is significant scope for the private sector to drive innovations that could reduce undernutrition, and, more …
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improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within the household …
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South Asia has long been synonymous with persistent and unusually high rates of child undernutrition — the so … undernutrition for at least two decades. In this paper we aim to understand the sources of this unheralded success with the …
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