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individuals still live after decades of mixed progress. Evidence shows that poverty reduction on its own will not do the job of … changing composition of future food demand in the region will depend on the extent to which poverty reduction effectively leads …
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The Sustainable Development Goals, the global development agenda for 2015 through 2030, will require unprecedented mobilization of resources to support their implementation. Their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, focused on a limited number of concrete, global human development...
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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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There is widespread interest in the number of hungry people in the world and trends in hunger. Current global counts rely on combining each country's total food balance with information on distribution patterns from household consumption expenditure surveys. Recent research has advocated for...
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Using cross-country and panel regressions, the authors show that financial sector development significantly reduces undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into beneficial income and general effects. They show...
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This paper provides new insight into the poverty, malnutrition and vulnerability issues in Mali, using existing … the shocks. Finally, it estimates vulnerability to poverty by modeling both households' expected consumption and their … conventional knowledge about poverty, food poverty, and malnutrition. The prevalence of chronic malnutrition is high in Mali, with …
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the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy … responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising food prices are likely to lead to higher poverty in sub … that anti-poverty interventions ought to retain their focus on rural areas where poverty remains highest even after taking …
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In 1993, in response to persistent unemployment, and rising poverty and social unrest, the government of Albania … introduced an anti-poverty program, namely Ndihma Ekonomike; in 1995 it was extended to all poor households. This paper estimates … subjective measures of household poverty. The analysis uses the nationally representative Albanian Living Standards Measurement …
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The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …
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At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …
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