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Computable General Equilibrium Simulations of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Agreement
Willenbockel, Dirk - 2019
Building upon earlier work by Willenbockel (2013; MPRA Paper No.51501), this study provides an extended ex-ante computable general equilibrium (CGE) assessment of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement between the member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African...
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Dietary quality and tree cover in Africa
Ickowitz, Amy; Powell, Bronwen; Salim, Mohammad; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The relationship between forests and human nutrition is not yet well understood. A better understanding of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258726
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Urban Agriculture, Price Volatility.Drought ,And Food Security In Developing Countries.
Jatta, Sylvester - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Abstract Urban agriculture may have an important role to play in addressing food insecurity problems, which are bound to become increasingly vital with the secular trends towards the urbanization of poverty and of population in developing countries. Our understanding of the importance, and food...
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Food and Nutrition Scenario of Kenya
Mohajan, Haradhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Government of the country is trying to reduce poverty. The country is developing in food security and nutrition since the last … taken here to discuss the food and nutrition situation of Kenya to build a healthy nation. …
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Estimating nutrition-income elasticities in sub-Saharan African:Implication on health
Ogundari, Kolawole; Ito, Shoichi; Okoruwa, Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The study estimates calories, proteins and fats-income elasticities in sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Annual time series data for 43 countries covering 1975-2009 that yields a balanced panel was employed for the analysis. The nutrient-income elasticities are estimated based on the aggregate Engel...
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Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums
Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous change in...
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Intrahousehold and interhousehold child nutrition inequality in Malawi
Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
health outcomes for household members. This paper investigates whether child nutrition inequalities are attributable to … method to estimate the between and within contributions of both the explained and unexplained variances of child nutrition …. Child nutrition is measured using height-for-age z-scores, and weight-for-height z-scores. The empirical analysis uses the …
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Child Health and the Income Gradient: Evidence from Australia
Khanam, Rasheda; Nghiem, Hong Son; Connelly, Luke B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature but the precise mechanisms via which income generates better health and whether the income gradient is increasing in child age are not well understood. This paper presents new...
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The Effects of the War in Iraq on Nutrition and Health: An Analysis Using Anthropometric Outcomes of Children
Guerrero Serdan, Gabriela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
paper also addresses the channels through which the conflict has affected health and nutrition. The results have not only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031398
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Empirical approach of absolute poverty in Greece: the needs for housing, nutrition, clothing, footwear, transport
Labrinidis, George; Maniatis, Thanasis; Bassiakos, Yannis; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Η έρευνα αυτή αποτελεί μια αντικειμενική αποτύπωση της σύγχρονης κοινωνικής πραγματικότητας αλλά και ένα χρήσιμο εργαλείο για τους σύγχρονους και μελλοντικούς...
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